School: Baile an Chaisil B.

Location:
Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Búrca
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  1. The soot falls down.
    Cats turn their back to the fire.
    Dogs eat grass in summer and harvest.
    Midges are very annoying.
    Rain bows in the morning foretell showery weather.
    Signs of a storm.
    Seagulls fly inland.
    Cormorants making hurried flights inland foretell that a storm is at hand.
    Wide circles around the moon foretell bad weather.
    Rivers making a gurgling noise at the ford mean a continuation of bad weather generally.
    When the wind is from the north the skillful fisher goes not forth.
    When the is from the East it neither good for man or beast.
    When the wind is from the West then it is the very best.
    When the wind is from the South it blows the bait into the fishes mouth.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Polke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    63
    Address
    Ballinglen, Co. Mayo