School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)

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   eaves of thatched houses, chimneys in the Summer. Mostly in bed-room or sitting rooms chimneys because no smoke goes out much for the Summer months, also in fences holes in walls and other places like that.

   

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2. Bird-Lore

   

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   The most common birds found in our district are, namely, the robin, the willie-wag-tail, the blackbird and the sparrow. The robin builds her nest in a hole in a wall. The colour of the eggs are brown and white. It is said that anyone that robs a bird's nest is cursed by the bird. The sparrow builds his nest in the eaves of houses and has five or six eggs. The wren lays about sixteen eggs. There is a story told about a wren and here it is. Once upon a time the birds wanted a

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Gerald Scott

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Dromard, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Jim Conlon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Dromard, Co. Sligo