School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Diolún
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- In this district we have a great many birds. The robin is a very tame bird. Her colour is red and brown. The robin builds her nest in a sod ditch. The robin lays four eggs. The cuckoo lays one egg, and she gets another bird to hatch the egg. The cuckoo is a very clever bird. The cuckoo comes to Ireland in Summer and in Winter she goes to Africa.
The cornrake is a very nice bird. Her colour is brown. She lays six eggs. Here is a rhyme about the corncrake."The bee, the batt,
The butterfly,
The cuckoo, and the swallow(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Joseph Scott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromahair, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Scott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromahair, Co. Leitrim