School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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- (continued from previous page)that one day St. Patrick had his hands outstretched in prayer and a blackbird started building his nest on one of his hands. St Patrick never left down the nest until the small birds were able to fly.
- Magpies are fairly plentiful in our district. They do not migrate to any country.
They build their nests in trees, but in our townland they have certain bushes in which they build every year.
Magpies nest are made of thorny sticks, and they roof them overhead. Holes are left on the sides one opposite the other
They lay eight fairly small eggs for about three weeks. Almost every bird(continues on next page)