School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - The names of the birds is the lark and the mosscheeper. The lark lays five eggs and the mosscheeper lays four. The cookow comes for the half of April the hold of may and the half of June and then awayThe birds sits on the eggs three weeks and if the birds dis not come out then the bird will leave the nest and build another. IF you rob a rans nests it is not a sin because the ran told on our Lord. The way the robbin got the red brest was when the gues crucified our Lord the robbin covered his body with leaves of trees and that is why the robbin got the red brest. The reason that the wee birds follow the cookow is they temt(continues on next page)
