School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)
- Location:
- Mountcollins, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Coileáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 314
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- Crows and magpies are going about on a day that there is going to be a breakdown.
A dog would eat grass would be a sign of rain.
Swallows would fly low as a sign of rain.
When crows and swallows fly high it is the sign of good weather.
Sea-gull screams loudly when near rain
Boys that rob birds' nests their heads would become swollen.
- Songs or sayings:-Abbeyfeale for flour and male (meal)
Newcastlewest for trawlers
Caherlevoy* for drunken men
And Baile Beag* for saspans * Two districts near the school
He has every story from this to Caherciveen
Well why! Castle Island how far back you are.(Said when you put up your hands when you'd be yawning or when you'd go into a house tired)
You couldn't whisper under a stone but you'd hear it.
If you found a penny under a stone you'd spend it.(continues on next page)
