School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 303
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- Signs of rain: To hear the Clab rouring loudly. This clob is a hole into which the river Fergus tumbles, and flows underground for half a mile. It is in the townland of Cahermacon.
Collected by: – Nora Ní Chasadaigh, Ballycashen
Told by: – Tomás Ó Casadaigh, Ballycashen (her father)
(60 years)
- Signs of rain: The wild geese descend from the north. The starlings come on the housetops. Yellow ashes.
Collected by: - Seosamh Mac Giolla Coisgle Coad
Told by: – John Costello. Coad (his father)
(58 years) - Signs of a frost: The smoke ascending very straight, a robin perched on the sill of a window.
Collected by: - Máire Ní Fhógartaigh, Poundtown
Told by: – Tomás Ó Fógartaigh, Poundtown, (her father)
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- Collector
- Tadhg Ó Diolúin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossard, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Martin Mc Mahon
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Crossard, Co. Clare
