School: Loughkeeren
- Location:
- Knockatemple, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Anna M. Warde
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- Many crows collected in a field portend rain.When birds and badgers are fat in October expect a cold winter.When the cuckoo comes when the leaves are not on the trees, it is a sign of a hard year.Celine Warde,
St. Ciaran's
BallyvaryAs long as the bird sings before Candlemas, so long will it wail after it.MAggie Mulroy,
Ballyvary
On Candlemas Day a good goose will lay;
But on Valentine's Day any goose will lay
- As long as the bird sings before Candlemas, so long will it wail after it.
On Candlemas Day a good goose will lay;
But on Valentine's Day any goose will lay - Collector
- Maggie Mulroy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellavary, Co. Mayo
