1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Rathdowney (B.)

School: Rathdowney (B.) (roll number 15595)

Location:
Rathdowney, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Peter Hegarty
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 382

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 382

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Rathdowney (B.)
  2. XML Page 382
  3. XML “Weather-Lore”

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

  1. Weather-Lore

    Share Share Post
    This is a ryhme which I often heard from old people.
    "A rainbow at night is shepherds delight
    A rainbow in morning is shepherds warning"
    Somtimes a ring appears around the moon and it is said,
    "The farther the ring
    The farther the rain"
    The following are some signs of rain
    A cat sitting with his back to the fire.
    Crows diving into the trees as if they were dead
    Goats coming down from the mountain
    Dust of the roads blowing
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    M. O Malley
    Address
    Rathdowney, Co. Laois
    Informant
    Mr J. Meehan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Rathdowney, Co. Laois