School: Droichead na Daoile (roll number 14736)
- Location:
- Lackalustraun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghallchobhair
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- How lonely the world would be without our feathered friends!
There are many kinds of birds in this district namely: robins, larks, wrens. swallows, wagtails, magpies, wild geese, snipe, wild-duck. The robins and lark build their nests in a ditch or in a corn-field. The wren builds her nest in house-eaves. She lays eighteen eggs though she is the smallest of all the birds. Magpies and blackbirds build their nests on trees.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maura Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mungaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Mungaun, Co. Mayo