School: Taney, Dundrum
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: E. Costello
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0797, Page 114
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Taney, Dundrum
- XML Page 114
- XML “Weather-Lore”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- When the clouds go too quickly it is a sure sign of rain.
"A red sky at night is the shepherd's delight a red sky in the morning is the shepherd's warning."
If the cat turns his back to the fire there will be a rainy day soon.
When the cattle run for shelter and all the birds become quiet the storm is near.
If the mountains are clear rain is near.
If only the part of the rainbow appears in the sky it is a very bad sign.
"When the swallows fly high good weather is nigh". When swallows fly low bad weather is near.
The moon sometimes has a bright ring around her and the nearer the ring is to the moon the nearer the rain is to us.
When the stars are too bright it will be a very frosty night.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Patterson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Churchtown, Co. Dublin
