School: Bullán (roll number 13432)
- Location:
- Bullaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0087
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- Weather LoreThis is a poem with a lot of weather guides contained in it.The stormy winds begin to blow
The clouds look black the grass is low
The soot falls down the Spaniards sleep.
The spiders from their cob-webs creep.
Last night, the sun went pale to bed
The moon so hallowed hid her head
The bolding shepherd heaves a sigh
To see a rainbow span the sky
The walls are damp, the ditches smell
Closed is the pink eye pink-ernell
Hark! how the chairs and tables crack
Old Betty's joints are on the rack.Lo 'o'er the grass the swallow wings
The cricket too how sharp he sings
The puss on the hearth with velvet paws
Sits wiping o'er his whiskered jaws
My dog so altered in his taste
Grinds mutton bones and grasps a feast
Hark! how the chairs and tables crack
Old Betty's joints are on the rack(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballykeeran, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Pat
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Ballykeeran, Co. Galway
