School: Earl Darnley (roll number 13573)
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siubhán Ní Loichéid
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 190
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Earl Darnley
- XML Page 190
- XML “Bird-Lore”
- XML “Bird-Lore”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)he can talk, he will wash himself if you will give him a can or anything containing water will do for him.
A Parrot is another kind of tame bird wichi will talk a great deal, he will eat seed or monkey nuts and he will imitate you in a whole lot of things that you say.
There are several kinds of canary they are vey nice and good looking birds. The yellow canary is my favourite an if you get a Goldfinch you can breed very nice birds indeed.
The young mules will be very nice birds too when they come out.
A young Pigeon is called a squab.
- The Yellowhammer builds her nest in a clipped hedge. She makes her nest of horse's hair and wool, she lays 4 blue eggs with black spots.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Grace Crawford
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stirrupstown, Co. Meath
