School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Ceathrú Mhic Giolla Shúiligh, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)eaves of thatched houses, chimneys in the Summer. Mostly in bed-room or sitting rooms chimneys because no smoke goes out much for the Summer months, also in fences holes in walls and other places like that.
- The most common birds found in our district are, namely, the robin, the willie-wag-tail, the blackbird and the sparrow. The robin builds her nest in a hole in a wall. The colour of the eggs are brown and white. It is said that anyone that robs a bird's nest is cursed by the bird. The sparrow builds his nest in the eaves of houses and has five or six eggs. The wren lays about sixteen eggs. There is a story told about a wren and here it is. Once upon a time the birds wanted a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gerald Scott
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Droim Ard, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Jim Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- An Droim Ard, Co. Shligigh
