School: Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla (roll number 11249)

Location:
Burnfort, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Domhnall Mac Óda (Archdeacon)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0389, Page 252

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  1. When the cat puts her back to the fire it is a sign of rain coming.
    When the horse puts his back to the ditch it is a sign of rain.
    Ants and [?] crawling in the ground in summer are signs of heavy rain to come.
    Falling soot is another bad sign of weather (Soot falling down from chimney on to fire place spells rain).
    In summer, slugs leaving dykes or ditches and crawling out on to road or across road is another sign of heavy rain.
    If the hedgehog, on leaving its burrow sees its own shadow it gets back into burrow again.
    Seeing a blue flame in the fire is a bad sign of the weather.
    A circle or halo around the moon is a sign of rain.
    When the sun goes down red, and when there is a red sky in the north, it is a sign of fine weather.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Charles Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bottlehill, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Doyle
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bottlehill, Co. Cork