School: Scoil an Chlochair, Dún Bleisce (roll number 14625)
- Location:
- Doon, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Regis
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- Bird - LoreBirds found in the district of Coolbawn, Co. Limerick belong to a different category. Some are water birds that frequent the Castletown river, others are the ordinary wild birds of the country. We also have a very rare bird spied in this locality. It is that of the owl, which sleeps in the ruined walls of Castletown Castle.We have wild dick, wild goose, and water - hens along the Mulcair River as it wends its course through the marchy lands.The Curlews, Pheasants, Crows, Jackdaws, Magpies, Blackbirds, Thrushes, Finches, Starlings, Wrens, Sparrows, Robin - red - Breast, Green plovers, Gray - plovers, Larks, Willie Wagtail, Stone - cutters, Linnets Snipe and during summer months swallows, and cuckoo, frequent this locality.
The swallows, cuckoo, Wild - goose, and plovers migrate, all the rest dont migrate. A few remain. One thing curious about plovers is that they don't(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Harrington
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr T. Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary
