School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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- The wild birds most commonly found in our district are:- crows, seagulls, blackbirds, robins and thrushes. None of these migrate but there are many other birds that come to us at a certain time of the year usually when the weather is fine and goes again to warmer countries when the weather begins to get cold namely. The cuckoo, the corncrake, the swallow, the wild goose and the grey plover.
All those birds build a nice nest for themselves in the most comfortable place except the cuckoo. The crow builds her nest in a big high tree either ash, oak, or elm but since all the woods are cut away they are beginning to build them in the white thorn tree. There is another bird called the jackdaw and she builds her nest in the chimneys of(continues on next page)- Collector
- Delia Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Four Mile House, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Corcoran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon