School: Ballinacarrow (roll number 13277)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Duibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0175, Page 151
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- Long ago the old people used to know when they would have fine weather by the following signs.
1. If the frogs were yellow.
2. If the sun set red in the west.
3. A rainbow at night.
4. If the swallows fly high.
5. If the smoke went up straight from the chimney's.
6. If you can hear the train at a distance.
7. If the wind comes from the North.
8. A heavy dew in Summer. Wet or Stormy Weather.
1. If the clouds are fleecy.
2. Cloud hanging low over the mountains.
3. Blue flames in a turf fire.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dorothy Hall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Templehouse, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs P. Hall
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Templehouse, Co. Sligo
