School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 104
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- In broken weather the sun comes out shining very brightly in the morning and gets clouded before mid-day and showgers generally follow it. The sun comes out at intervals and at time the rainbow appears in the sky. Coming on to evening the sun gets pale with a number of stremers hanging out of it. On the sky at the same time you can observe wool-packs and goat hair. As night approaches the stars come out very numerous and if you watch them you will see them fall rapidly each one having a long tail and when they all disappear the sky gets darkened again. The greatest prophet of all birds for a wet day is the Curlew when you hear him in the morning. The crows are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Owen Murtagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Owen Murtagh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
