School: Kilskeer (B.) (roll number 1421)
- Location:
- Kilskeer, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Máirtín Ó Loingsigh R. Ó Fithcheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)in the side of the river. The Magpie builds in the tree tops. The yellow hammar builds her nest in the briars. The blackbirds builds in a close hedge. The starling builds in a hole in the tree. The sky-lark builds her nest in the grass. Some of the birds mygrate (Some of the birds) such as the swallow, cuckoo, corncrake. The birds have certain signs of showing what kind of weather there is going to be. If they fly low it is said that there is going to bad weathler. Any boy or girl that kills a bird it is said he or she will have bad luck always.
