School: Cros-Bhóthar (roll number 14688)
- Location:
- Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0010
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- (continued from previous page)(2) A wet and windy May.
Filled the Haggard with corn and hay.
(3) If the cuckoo sing on a tree without blossom
Sell the cow and buy corn.
Because the following Winter will be severe. (1) If the oak tree begins to bud out before the ash it is a sure sign that a fine summer will come.
(2) If we have frost during New Moon we will have rain soon.
(3) When the wind is from the west during New Moon the rain will fall. (1) The colour of the sky for snow is whitish blue.
The colour of the sky for fine weather is blue and
The colour of the sky for a storm is white. (2) When the sun shines while the rainbow is in the sky it is the sign of showery weather. (3) If there is fog with the new moon or frost with the first quarter or full moon they usually last a good while.
- Collector
- James Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Martin Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
