School: St Patrick's, Ballyfarnon (roll number 13978)
- Location:
- Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Mark Hanly Thos. Feeny
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0231, Page 181
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- If the mountains look far away it is a sign of rain.
A pale sunset is a sign of rain.
If crickets chirp loudly or are seen hopping on the kitchen, rain will soon follow.
If midges or flying ants are very numerous on a summer or harvest evening there will be rain soon.
If soot falls down the chimney it is a sign of rain.
If a moisture appears on the kitchen windows a storm is coming.
When emptying the ashes out of the grate at night if they appear purple it is a sign of storm.
If sheep come down from the hills to lower lands it is a sign of storm.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullytawen, Co. Roscommon
