School: Cullahill (C.), Rathdowwney (roll number 13137)
- Location:
- Cullahill, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mrs Baird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0830, Page 199
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- A rainy day distresses everybody, but still it has humid fragrance, and it has a way of stealing into your life, which disarms anger. The rain around this locality is a soft modest rain as a rule, and it gives you the impression that it is treating you as well as it can, under the circumstances.
The sun shining over us, brings happiness showering down about us. We should never try to shade our homes from the sunshine, as it replaces the doctor. It is a tonic for all sick people.
The following is a list of the old beliefs regarding the weather:- When rain is approaching, the clouds look black. Other signs of rain are shown outdoors. The distant hills look near. The sheep are grazing quickly, as they have some instinct that tell them it is about to rain. Birds and flies fly low, because the atmosphere gets cold when rain is approaching. The smoke raises from the chimneys, and descends again, when it is about to rain; and when smoke raises straight to the sky, we may expect fine weather. Several other outdoor signs foretell rain.
We still have signs of approaching rain indoors. The cricket sings sharply, the walls are weeping, the cat by the fireside washes his face, and it is said when it sits with its back to the fire, very severe weather is approaching.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raheenleagh, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Lawrence Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Raheenleagh, Co. Laois
