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House {Mayo) we saw a large heronry at the end of June 1834, when 
the squalling kept up through the evening was incessant, and occasion- 
ally, amid the inharmonious din, cries like those of magpies were 
heard. When passing Bantry House, county of Cor/r, in July 1834, a 
similar uproar arose from an extensive heronry. From the intelligent 
gamekeeper here (Geo. Jackson) I learn, that it contained above fifty 
nests in 1849, and that at Adrigoole Lodge, a summer residence of 
Lord Bantry’s, there is a small colony of eight pair of birds ; — also, 
that at Castle Mary and Macroom Castle there are heronries, about 
fifty nests having been reckoned at the latter place in 1848 : these 
localities are in the county of Cork. My informant mentions another 
heronry known to him at Frenchpark, county of Boscommon, in which, 
some years ago, when he lived there, about thirty nests were annually 
built. He remarks : — “ In a number of nests that I examined, I have 
seen young birds nearly full-fledged, birds not long hatched, and eggs 
in a state of incubation, all in the same nest. In the breeding season 
of 1847 two young birds at Adrigoole came down into a yard behind 
the kitchen, and fed on the entrails of fish, &c. that were thrown out. 
They were observed by Lord Bantry, who liked their confidence, and 
ordered them to be fed regularly. In a short time they walked 
boldly into the kitchen, quite regardless of the people present, and were 
nowise backward in making free with anything they took a fancy to. 
The whole of the time they were not in the yard or kitchen, they perched 
on the top of the house. When his lordship left the place they mingled 
among the rest, perhaps from not being fed, and were not known from 
the others the succeeding year.” 
“ There is a heronry at Maryborough, the seat of Edward Newen- 
ham. Esq., about two miles from Cork ; and a small one at Coolmore, 
ten miles from that city. At Prospect Yilla, about two miles distant 
from the latter, a pair of herons has built, for the last four years, 
in the same grove with rooks. They have occupied diiferent trees 
during that short period.”'^ At Castlemartyr Park, in the same county, 
there is a heronry. In the county of Waterford these birds build at 
Dromana ; and at Salter’s Bridge, near Lismore, there is an extensive 
heronry, where amid the dark-foliaged trees the white necks of the 
birds have been remarked to “ show forth like flowers.”f Eespecting 
Mr. Robert Warren, jun. 
t Mr. R. Ball. 
