School: Mulhuddart (roll number 16675)
- Location:
- Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Broin
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 81](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0790%2FCBES_0790_81.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 81
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: Mulhuddart
- XML Page 81
- 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
- The principal wild birds around this district are; Crows, blackbirds, thrushes, wagtails, robins, magpies, swallows, corncrakes, cuckoo, sparrows, water-hens, finches, wild-ducks, larks, starlings, linnets, kingfishers, pigeons, jackdaws, scaldcrows, wrens, hawks, plovers, snipes, cranes, partridges, pheasants, yellow-hammers, stone-chats.
The birds that build their nests in these different places are:-
In trees = Crows, jackdaws, scaldcrows, pigeons, starlings,
finches, hawks, magpies.
In hedges = Blackbirds, thrushes, sparrows,
In House Eves= Swallows, house sparrows.
In River banks = Wild ducks, cranes, water-hens, and Kingfishers
In Banks = Robins, Linnets, wagtail,
On the ground = Larks, snipes, Pheasants, corncrakes and Plovers
In Walls = Stonechats.
In chimneys = Crows and jackdaws.
The materials of the nests are:-
The birds that build in the trees make their nests of sticks which are kept together with clay and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Esther Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Powerstown, Co. Dublin