School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- Collector
- Seán Darcy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Tom Carty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Many people believe that when the sun rises red in the morning or goes down in the pale in the evening it denotes bad weather. When there are many stars twinkling in the sky at night and a ring round the moon we are near a storm. When the birds fly high there is good weather ahead because in good weather the insects of the air fly high and the birds go up after them and in bad weather the insects come down low and the birds follow them. When smoke from the chimneys go straight up in the air the air is(continues on next page)