School: Foynes (C.) (roll number 2814)
- Location:
- Foynes, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eithne Ní Mhaidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0483, Page 028
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- Signs of Good Weather
If the swallows and crows were flying very high to the ground: A patch of blue in the morning about the size of a blanket towards the west; The people long ago used to say "A rainbow at night is a shepherd's delight; A red sky at night
- The crows flying low. Sut falling from the chimney; Sea-gulls flying to the land. Spiders creeping from their cob-webs;
There is a little verse about signs of bad weather;-
The moon last night went pale to bed,
The sun was hallow hung her head, the sut falls down, and spannels sleep,
and spiders from their cob-webs creep. - Collector
- Máire Nic Aodha
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs B. Dundon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughinish East, Co. Limerick
