School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)which is three miles distance from my house it is a sign of fine weather.
- When houses and distant hills look near it is a sign of rain. When the smoke is going up straight it is a sign of rain. When the wind is coming from the south it is a sign of rain. When the chimneys smoke it is a sign of rain. When the fog is going west on Mount Gabriel and Lether hill it is a sign of rain. When the sky is blue and starry and the stirs twinkling it is a sign of frost. When the walls of houses get damp it is also a sign of rain. Salt also gets damp before rain.
- Collector
- Nan Roycroft
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs J. Roycroft
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork
