School: Loch Rois (roll number 1751)
- Location:
- Loughros, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Stiofán Ó Braonáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0198, Page 033
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Loch Rois
- XML Page 033
- XML “Bird-Lore”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Birds are our feathered friends and in every district we have our own common wild birds, some of which are migratory birds. In this district we have the cuckoo, the swallow, the corn-crake, the sparrow, and the neavoig. The cuckoo, swallow, and the corncrake are migratory.
The cuckoo comes early in April or in the end of March and leaves again the 23rd of June. She builds no nest of her own but lays eggs in some other birds nest to be hatched and be fed by the mother bird of the nest.
The swallow comes early in May and migrates again about the end of August. She builds her nest in an old wall or in the eves of houses and hatches her eggs for three weeks. Then she brings out her young ones, and takes care of them until they are able to fly about themselves.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Mc Guire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Gortnaderrary, Co. Leitrim
