School: Benbawn
- Location:
- Binbane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Gillespie
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1019, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)their nests in house -eaves. The wrens build their nets in holes, in fences, and in hedges.
Some boys rob birds' nests, and this is a very great sin. And they are told that if they do not repent, they will go to hell.
Most birds' nests are made of sticks, moss, feathers and leaves, and some of them are lined with hair and other things. Birds sit on the eggs three weeks
The nest of the swallow is made of tiny balls of clay, mixed with grass and bits of straw, and lined with dry grass and feathers. The swallow as a rule lays five eggs in its nest. The eggs are white, speckled with brown and dark red.
The nest of the starling is clumsily built of straw, roots, and grasses.
It is placed sometimes in a tree, and sometimes in a hole in an old ruin, or on the ledge of a cliff or rock. As a rule it contains five pale blue eggs without any markings at all.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Olive Ebbitt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumerkillew, Co. Cavan
