School: Carn (roll number 12537)
- Location:
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Miadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 149
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- (continued from previous page)"The crow." She builds her nest up very high and it is a very large nest made of , bits of bushes and hay and then it is lined with feathers. The colour of her eggs is blue.
The Trush: She builds her nest in a bush and it is made of moss and feathers. She never migrates. She lays four or five eggs and they are of a greenish colour marked with black.
The sparrow: builds his nest in the thatch of a house or in a hole in the wall.
The yellow hammer: She always builds her nest in a sycamore tree and it consists of bits of sticks and moss. She never lays more than five eggs.
- Informant
- Mrs Durcan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Cuilmore, Co. Sligo
