School: Caisleán hAicéid
- Location:
- Castlehacket, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0025, Page 0051
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- 1. If you see a ring round the moon at night it is the sign of rain.
2. White clouds in the sky is a sign of snow.
3. If the sun rises red in the morning rain will follow.
4. To see a rainbow in the sky in the morning is the sign of rain.
5. To see only a few stars in the sky by night is a sign of rain.
6. To see the sky covered with stars by night is the sign of frost.
Signs of weather from the wind.
1. If ard cold biting wind blows from the east it is the sign of frost.
2. The south and south-westerly wind usually brings rain.
- Collector
- Annie O' Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs O' Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway
