School: Doohamlet
- Location:
- Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)12. When the haws are plentiful it is the sign of a good year.
13 Rain in May makes the barns full of corn and hay.
14 If new milk thickens it is the sign of good weather
15 A year of sloes is a sorrowful year.
16 A wet March makes a bad harvest
17 If February brings no rain
There'll be neither hay nor grain.
18 If apples bloom in March, you may look for apples
19 If it thunders on All Fool's day
It will bring good crops of corn and hay.
20 A wet and windy May.
Make the haggards full of corn and hay
21 A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard
22 A ring around the moon is the sign of rain.
23 When the ground dries up in the Winter and North winds blow it is the sign of snow.
24 When the midges bite wickedly it is a sign of rain,
25 A good Winter means a bad Summer.(continues on next page)
