School: Baile an Tobair, Baile an Londraigh (roll number 10314)
- Location:
- Ballintober, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Tuama
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 245
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- The names of the birds in my district are Crows, Jackdaws, Robins, Swallows, Wrens, Blackbirds, Thrushes, Pidgeon, Plover, Sparrows, Woodcock, Cuckoo, Corncrake, Seagull, Curlew, Water-hen Wagtail, Yellow-hammer, Linnet, Gold-finch Stonechat Blind-bat. The swallow builds her nest in hay-barns or on the side of a wall. The swallow makes her with mud and feathers. Her eggs are white with brown spots she lay a five eggs. The (pig) pidgeon builds her nest on high trees. The nest is made of sticks. The eggs she lays are white, the most she lays is two. The crow builds her nest on high trees and the nest is made of sticks and mud. She lays about four eggs. The colour of her eggs is blue with brown spots. The Wren builds her nest in a hole in a fence in small trees. Her nest is made of moss hair and feathers, she lays about twelve eggs. The colour of her eggs is white with brown spots. The Thrush builds her nest forge. She lays four eggs, her eggs are blue with brown spots. The Blackbird builds her nest in bushes. She makes her nest with mud and moss. The blacbird lays four eggs her eggs are blue with black spots. The starling builds her nest on walls of house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Carmel Lee
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
