School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Ceathrú Meánach, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 349
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- (continued from previous page)hand, after which the cuts are dropped in the trenches, about nine inches being between each cut. The drills are then closed with the drill-plough.
Wooden ploughs were used on our farm about forty years ago. There is a wooden drill-plough left on our farm yet and we still use it.
- In our district the old people can tell the kind of weather to be expected by observing the signs. A red sky at sunset, a halo near the moon, a rainbow in the evening, fleecy clouds, a clear sky at evening, are signs of good weather. W watery sunset, dark clouds in the sky, a distant halo round the moon, a rainbow in the morning, dim stars, are signs(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Rose Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Dhún na nGall
