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School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)

Location:
Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
(name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 16_045

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    There are a great many song-birds around Kells, such as, black-birds, canaries, gold-finches, bull-finches, sparrows, wrens, robins, cuckoos, and corn-crakes.
    Black-birds build their cosy nests in thick green ditches.
    Their nests are very round and deep.
    They put hair and moss into the nest to make it nice and cosy for the young birds.
    The wren is called the "King of the birds" because one day when all the birds were assembled together
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Annracán
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kells, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mary Carroll
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Kells, Co. Kilkenny