School: Cill Bhonáin, Droichead na Bandan (roll number 1271)
- Location:
- Kilbonane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0346, Page 091
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- The wild birds of the district are:- The thrush, sparrow, swallow, bullfinch, seagull, tom-tit, rook, corn-crake, cuckoo, robin, blackbird, pilibín-miog, linnet, yellow hammer, stone-thrush, jackdaw, wild goose, hawk, pigeon, skylark, wren, wild duck, magpie, snipe, pheasant, curlew, plover, starling.
The cuckoo, the swallow, the corn crake and the sparrow migrate between the end of July and the end of August.
The thrush builds her nest in a bush or in an ivy fence. The nest is built of moss and sticks. The eggs are blue with brown spots.
The sparrows build together in old houses. They have fifty nests in the eaves in one of my houses. The nests are built of feathers and straw.
The swallows have four nests in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Creed
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aherla More, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Cornelius O Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aherla More, Co. Cork
