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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Collected by Sheila Boland (14), Wood-of-O, Tullamore. - 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)
- Collector
- Brigid Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballycommon, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mary Egan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ballycommon, Co. Offaly