School: Killanure, Mountrath (roll number 8095)
- Location:
- Killinure, Co. Laois
- Teacher: C. Ní Dhubhlainn
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- 1;When the crane goes up the river it is a sign of fine weather and vice-versa.
2; If you kill a swallow or injure its nest your best "milk" cow will milk blood,
3;When the swallow flies low its a sign of bad weather and vice-versa.
4; When the curlew calls its a sign of rain.
5; When the wild geese fly over the Baureigh Mt out to Lock Annagh (between Clonaslee and Tullamore) the winter will be bad.
6; When the wild geese fly south it is a sign of a storm.
7; When the robin hops into the house it is a sign of snow.
8; (Magpie) "One for sorrow, Two for joy,Three for a wedding and Four to die, Five for copper, Six for gold, Seven for silver. Eight for a fortune never to be told.
9; When the stares flock together, sign of hardship.
10; The Swallow has a forked tail since the serpent bit a piece out of it.
11; Willy wagtail: so called because not being a true percher when perching he wags his tail.
12; Woodpecker: because he pecks wood to find food.
13; Crossbill= so called from shape of bill. It is said that he tried to pull either a thorn from Our Saviour's Head or a nail from his hand and the beak not being enough got bent in from the cross.
