School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 383
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- (1) If you saw the smoke going up real straight from the chimney in the evening the following morning will be frosty one.
(2) If we see a lot of frogs in the fields and on the roads that is a sign of bad weather.
(3) When people hear the furniture creaking or when they see the place where salt is kept getting wet, they say the weather will be wet.
(4) If we see the fowl picking at their feathers it is a sign of a storm.
(5) When there is a ring around the sun when it is setting it is a sign that the following day will be fine.
(6) If the weather be fine and there is a ring around the moon, it is a sign that the weather will change to rain.
(7) If the weather be wet and there is a ring around the moon it is a sign that the weather will change.
(8) The east wind brings most rain to my district.
(9) When the sky is of a grey-red colour it is a sign of an approaching(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Curran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Denis Curran
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare
