School: Monaghan (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16723)
- Location:
- Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0957, Page 196
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- When anyone has a corn on their toe and it is very sore that is a sign of rain. When a donkey brays loudly that is a sign of rain. When the soot falls down off the walls that is another sign of rain.
When the sun is too hot in the morning there will be rain before night.
- 1 When the swallows fly low
2 When the rooks fly low
3 When the guinea hen shouts
4 "Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry
The distant hills are barking nigh,
How restless are the snorting swine
The busy fly disturb the kine
The soot falls down, the spaniel sleeps
The spider to her cobweb creeps,
Press on the hearth with velvet paws, sits wiping her whiskered jaws"(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eileen Barton
- Gender
- Female
