School: Cnoc Breac

Location:
New Inn, Co. Galway
Teacher:
M. Ó Maoldúin
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    Whenever a persons corn is sore we are going to have bad weather. When the sun goes down very red in the evening we are going to have a start of very fine weather.
    When we get very severe wind from the North we are going to get snow. In the morning when it is raining and if it is coming from the direction of a bog it is said that the rain will continue for a while. When a horse keeps his back to a ditch we are going to have rain. Whenever a day is going to clear the cock begins to crow. In the summer time when we are going to get thunder the sky around us is either blue or red. The wind that comes from the North is about the hardest.
    It is very hard to know sometimes about rain because we often
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Naughton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carra, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Grath
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Carra, Co. Galway