School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 059
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- (continued from previous page)February has been called "February fill the dyke," and unless it is wet we will have a wet year to follow
- There are a lot of signs for the weather for example, when the ducks quack loudly, the cat sits by the fire wiping his whiskered jaws with his paws, when soot falls in great lumps, when the distant hills seem nearer, the pigs are very restless and snorting, and in the summer-time the flies disturb the cattle and when the swallows fly very low, and the crickets(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cherry Gordon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr J. Gordon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
