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   A golden or copper sun-set.
   Fine weather signs.
   A bright clear sky in the morning.
   A blue sky with white fluffy clouds.
   Hill and mountains appear a clear blue colour.
   Swallows fly high.
   Smoke rises straight from chimneys.
   Sheep graze late of a night.
   Signs of frosty weather.
   A red and 'maceral' sky.
   Starlings in crowds on tree-tops.
   Stars twinkling.
   The "milky-way" to be seen plainly.
   The moon clear.
   Chill-blains torment their victims.
   Houses (to) smoke.
   Roads dry and hard.
   Signs of coming storms.
   A dark heavy sky for days before-hand.
   Crows flying from place to place and making noise in the trees.
   Waves of ocean lashing and thundering and forming white-horses on their surfaces.
   Sea-birds crying loudly and coming inland.
   Cat sharpens her nails.
   Tower of Hook light (from light house) flashes high in the sky.

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      1. weather-lore (~6,442)

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   Peggie Doyle

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   Nash, Co. Wexford

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   Magaret O' Conner

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   Age

   60

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   Nash, Co. Wexford