School: Leacaigh (Leacach)

Location:
Lackagh Beg, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó hÁinlíghe
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  1. If the dogs were eating grass.
    The cats to be scraping the chairs.
    To hear wild geese shouting.
    The clouds to be dark.
    Old womens bones to be cracking.
    The soot to be falling from the chimney.
    Seaguls come inland.
    An ass puts his back to the wall.
    The starlings mixed with the crows.
    Ants to have wings.
    The cat to have his back to the fire.
    The swallows fly low.
    The wind to be whistling.
    An old man's corns to be sore.
    A Curlew shouts twice.
    The dry seaweed gets damp.
    The cricket chirps on the hearth.
    The river runs low.
    A yellow frog looks black.
    When we have a red sunrise
    All the crows lined together on the wall.
    A ring around the moon.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Collins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cnoc Tua Mór, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Dennis Hynes
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    An Cárán, Co. Galway