School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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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(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Annracán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny