School: Loughshinny (roll number 8434)
- Location:
- Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: James Monks
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 65
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- This information was supplied by John Mac Nally Lambay View Ballykea Skerries aged 51 who heard it from his father who died 1935 at the age of eighty-four.
The old people of Loughshinney can tell what kind of weather we are going to have by watching how animals behave. They say that when a cat sits with her back to the fire it is a sign that here is rain or bad weather coming.
If we see sheep facing the wind when they are lying down there is sure to be rain within twenty-four hours.
When a hen picks her feathers rain is coming. If a cat eats grass it is a sure sign that story weather is near.
- The information was supplied by Joseph Plunkett, Loughshinney, Skerries, Co. Dublin aged 47 who heard it from his father who died 1935 aged 82 years.When a storm is coming seagulls fly in(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Joseph Plunkett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
