School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- When we have wind from the south-west it is a sign of rain, and when we have wind from the north-east it is a sign of hard dry weather. When the sheep come down from the mountains into the lowland it is a sign of a storm. When the swallows are flying high it is a sign of fine weather, and when they are flying low it is a sign of rain.
Severe Thunderstorm
On the 24th of June people used to go from here to Leap to do a rounds in some holy place there. On one occasion when they were going there was thunder and lightning, and they saw what they thought fell from the sky - a long spear of fire and it went down through the ground and they could hear it tear through the ground. It was in a marshy place of the country it fell.
- Collector
- Patrick Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr P. Donovan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
