School: Currach Chluana (Croughclooney) (roll number 7885)
- Location:
- Curraghcloney, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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- (continued from previous page)Talks about the Weather
If the sun sets with a sickly looking colour it is a sign of a heavy fog.
If the magpie is seen hiding all the food he gets in the farmyard in summer, it is the sign of a bad winter.
- A Fire Disaster
A long time ago there lived near Ballinamult a family called Whelan. Rodger Whelan had only two children a boy and a girl and his wife.
One day while he was out in the haggard thatching a stack of straw himself and his wife. They were working so busy that he had his waistcoat left down beside a hay stack. In the coat were matches and tobacco.
In the meantime the two children came along and got the matches and put fire on a haystack which was quiet near the dwelling-house, when they saw the hay on fire they ran to the nearest village of Priestown for the neighbours.
When they arrived the dwelling-house(continues on next page) - Informant
- Miss M. Phelan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lacken, Co. Waterford
