School: Árd Caorthainn (roll number 15217)
- Location:
- Ardkeeran, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 200
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- (continued from previous page)When they have them built they fly about and gather some feathers and put them in the nests so as to make them soft and cost. They then lay their eggs and sit on them for three weeks or a month. They are then hatched and Mother and Father Bird are then very busy getting food for their young.
Some naughty boys and girls rob birds' nests. This is not right because if there is an egg left in the nest the bird will not go back to it again.
When swallows fly low it is a sign of bad weather and wehn they fly igh it is a good sign of the weather. When the wild-geese are seen flying inland it is a sign(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dympna Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Female
