School: Loughshinny (roll number 8434)
- Location:
- Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: James Monks
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 103
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- (continued from previous page)nest on the first of March but if the first falls on a Sunday she will not start work until the next day.
Boys are told that if they rob a birds nest the bird will come in the night time while they are asleep and peck their eyes out. The robin treid to pull a thorn out of the crown on Our Lords head and a drop of blood fell on his breast. Ever since robins have red breasts.
- There are many wild birds to seen in our district such as the robin, crow, sparrow, swallow wren thrush and the Black-bird. The thrush, a middle sized bird stays with us all through the winter months. She builds her nest in the middle of spring. She makes it of mud, hay and moss in a bush. The blackbird is about the same size as the thrush. She makes her nest in the middle of a bush in spring. The robin is a small bird not half the size of the thrush. She has a(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Mc Nally
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballykea, Co. Dublin
