School: Coillín Aodha (C.)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0164, Page 159
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- There is the remains of a church in Mr Sweeney's field in Quigabar. Tradition says that it was built by the order of St Patrick.
The dimensions are fifty-eight feet long, and twenty feet wide.
The place where the church was built is marshy land, and it was never cultivated.
There is a stone wall seven yards from the west side of the church, and there is a green mound outside the wall, which people believe to be a grave.
- The curlew calls loudly, when rain is approaching.
Corns ache when rain is near.
A blue haze in the fire foretells a storm.
A ring around the moon foretells rain.
The moaning of the bar at Enniscrone foretells rain.
The moaning of the bar at Easkey foretells frost.
The singing of crickets is a sign of rain.
Geese taking flight for a distance, foretells high wind.
