School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 121
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- (continued from previous page)Sign of Storm.
1. A red sky in the morning.
2. When the cat scratches the table.
3. When the wind whistles through the key-hole.
4. A red circle round the moon.
5. When the moon is red.Signs of Frost.
1. Old people get pains in their bones when frost is coming.
2. A starry night.
3. When there is a boo from Tim Curtin's cascade.
4. The eastern wind.Signs of Snow.
1. When the cat sits with his back to the fire.
2. When the wild geese come to loc a gé.
3. The soot falling down a farmer's chimney.
4. The starlings.
- Collector
- Bridie Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Daniel Keating
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rockhill West, Co. Cork
