School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0773, Page 102
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- XML “Birds' Nests - Grouse's Nest”
- XML “Birds' Nests - Swan's Nest”
- XML “Birds' Nests - Jackdaw's Nest”
- XML “Birds' Nests - Partridge's Nest”
- XML “Birds' Nests - Cuckoo's Nest”
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- A grouse builds her nest in the heather. She lays about twelve eggs. They are a darker colour than the woodcock. (Ditto)
- A swan builds in tufts of grass at the side of a river. Her eggs are big and speckled like a goose's.
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- Informant
- Mrs Mc Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Straffan, Co. Kildare
- The partridge makes a very scanty nest among thick grass and other herbage, sometimes at the foot of a bush and like the pheasant will sometimes build on a stack. The egg is smooth and sometimes are a brownish olive in colour but sometimes blueish green. They are found in May, they are from ten to twenty in a clutch. (Mr Finlay, Celbridge)
- A Cuckoo builds in other birds nests,(continues on next page)
