School: Baldoyle Convent (roll number 11883)
- Location:
- Baldoyle, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Sr Augustine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0792, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)breast, the robin builds her nest on banks and small bushes, it lays four whitesh eggs with brown spots.
The seagull lives on an island surrounded by the sea, they lay three eggs of sky-blue and they build their nests on rocks, they are made of reeds and coarse grass.
The swallow is an uncommon bird in our district; it arrives in the beginning of Summer and returns to a warm country in the beginning of October. The swallow flies very low; it builds its nest in eves of houses of a good height.
Teresa Rooney
I got this information from
Mr J Sweeney,
Railway Lodge,
Claremount,
Howth,
Co. Dublin.
- Collector
- Teresa Rooney
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Informant
- Mr J. Sweeney
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Howth, Co. Dublin
