School: Caisleán hAicéid
- Location:
- Castlehacket, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
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- XML “Signs of the Weather from Flies, Bees, Ants, Snails, Smoke, Fire and Soot”
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- 1. A blue light in the fire is the sign of rain.
2. Soot falling is the sign of rain.
3. To see the smoke going up straight from the chimney is the sign of rain.
4. To see the bumble-bee in the evening is a sign of rain.
5. If a lot of snails appear on the grass in the evening it is also a sign of rain.
6. Midges lying on the road is the sign of thunder.- Collector
- Mary Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bunatober, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Edmond Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Bunatober, Co. Galway