School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)
- Location:
- Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033, Page 0278
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- Signs of weather
When a cat purrs by the fireside that is a great sign of rain.
An old woman scratching her toes is a sign of rain.
When you look at the mountains and think they are near that is a sign of rain.
When an old person's bones are sore they get worse when rain (of) is coming.
If the curlews are very plentiful that is also another sign of rain .
- There lived in Caherforous a man named Mike Cloonan and he had a nick-name "Tenpenny". This man used have a little garden with walls very high, so high that no goat could get in. When dinner time came always they used blow a tin whistle to call him to dinner. So this day anyhow he said to himself "Bedad I will not walk home any more, I'll be just as good as the crows flying". So he went up on top of one of (the) walls with a bag in each hand. He jumped out waving his hands up and down until at last he fell into a big cullárs of briars and hurt himself very much.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Kate Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Craughwell, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Craughwell, Co. Galway
