School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 199
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Jack Daw:- The jack daw makes her nest in a high tree. She makes it out of small sticks. She lays four eggs the colour of them are white with brown spots.
Rayfolk:- The rayfolk makes her nest in a ditch. She lays dark blue eggs. She hatches them for three weeks. She lays four or five eggs.
Collected by Kate Coyne (12), Derrygrogan, Daingean. - Cuckoo:- The cuckoo goes when she see's the first cock of hay. She comes on the twenty-third of April. She is heard a few days afterwards.
Swallow:- The swallows go ont the first of October. They come a week before the cuckoo.
Wild geese:- The wild geese leave in the beginning of April and go to Scotland. They come in the month of November.
Grey plover:- The grey plover goes and comes the same time as the wild geese.
Collected by Sheila Boland (14), Wood-of-O, Tullamore. - Willie Wag:- The willie is supposed to have(continues on next page)
