School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Cluain Caoin, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)The birds that migrate are -
cuckoo, swallows, bame-crake, plover, wildgeese
partridges, grouse, blackstairs, woodquests (migrate in Summer
French-magpie, "pilibín", French jay (comes in Summer).-----The larger birds magpie, crow, woodpigeon and the jay build their nests in tree tops.
The blackbird + thrush in "sgeacs" and bushes
The wren in a bush well covered up.
The robin in a hole in a ditch.
The lark and sandpiper in the grass on the ground generally in a meadow.
The finches + green linnet high up in a "sgeac"
The jackdaw in a chimney and she brings anything bright she sees in it, sometimes silver-paper, (even silver) wool and timbles have been found in them.
The swallow builds with mud under the eaves ofhouses, generally over a window and they come to the same nest year after year. The sparrows often run them out of their nests and take possession of them. The sparrows have nests in splits in walls also wagtail and tit mouse.
The leather-wing-bat in ivy on the "eye" of a brige(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Ghráig Fhada, Co. Loch Garman