School: Mantua (roll number 2327)
- Location:
- Mantua, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 048
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6) When beetles come into the house at night it is sign of rain
7) The cat sits on the hearth and washes her ears when rain is coming
8) The dog is sleepy and eats grass when rain is coming
9) The donkey and horse stand with their backs to the wind in shelter of a fence when rain is coming
10) The cattle run from the flies when rain is coming
11) The distant hills appear near when rain is coming
12) A cloud on the mountain in the morning is a sign of rain
13) The daddy long legs comes into the house at night when rain is coming
14) The dust rising from the road is a sign of rain
15) the smoke rising perpendicularly from the chimney is a sign of rain.
- A man named John Beirne known as Sean Mor Éadach who lived at Rathallen between Elphin and Boyle was famed for his strength. He was a man of medium height but as broad as two men. An Englishman used come to the market of Frenchpark to buy wool. He was very strong and he used to take two half hundred weights and put a chain through them and sling them over the beam of the scales that stood about nine feet from the ground. There was no man going to the Frenchpark market able(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Michael Cannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 93
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilmacumsy, Co. Roscommon
