School: Eatharlach (Aherlow) (roll number 15678)
- Location:
- Aherlow, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Énrí Mac Eochaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0581, Page 175
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- 1. To hear the Glens roaring is a sign of bad weather.
2. Whenever the kitchen floor is damp (or weeping as it is generally ascribed) is a sign wet weather is coming
3. Whenever the bacon on the chimney begins to drop spittle it is a sign of wet weather.
4. When the smoke refuses to go up the chimney in calm weather it is a sign of frost.
5. One magpie on a road is said to be a sign of ill luck and the person seeing it should turn back if he were on any important business
Two magpies is a sign of good luck.
Four magpies together in a field is a sign of a death
- Collector
- B. Meade
- Address
- Gortnafurra, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Paddy Kiely
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rossbog, Co. Tipperary
