School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 109
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- The following are signs of wet weather:
When the dogs sleep around the fire.
When the curlews are screaming.
When the crickets are singing.
When the hens are near the door;
When the ducks quack loudly.
When the distant hills look nigh.
When the swallows are flying low.
When the rainbow is in the sky.
When the flies torment us.
When the pigs are restless in houses.
When the walls are damp.
When a star is near the moon.
When the seagulls flie inland
The old people get pains in their joints.
The chairs and tables creak.
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- Collector
- John Cotterell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Cotterell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Kilcullen, Co. Kilkenny
