School: Ballinacliffy
- Location:
- Ballynacliffy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: A. Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)bush and lays four blue eggs and hatches them for a fortnight. The pigeon builds a flat nest about half ways up a tree and lays two white eggs She hatches them for three weeks.
- The thrushes song sound like this "Cherry dew, White hat, Pretty Joey, Pretty Joey, Pretty Joey". The larks song sounds like this. "EE, aa, úe, Jemmy is a goosey, Jemmy bought a new coat, and tore it, tore it."The snipe is called the sky-goat because her cry is like a kid's. The thrush builds her nest with moss, hay wool, and she lines it with mud.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Rushe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- James Keegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Killeenmore, Co. Westmeath