School: Béal Átha Gabhann (Silvermines), Nenagh (roll number 15696)
- Location:
- Silvermines, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Floinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 193
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Béal Átha Gabhann (Silvermines), Nenagh
- XML Page 193
- XML “The Signs of the Weather”
- XML “The Signs of the Weather”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- If the swallows are flying low it is the sign of bad weather and if they are flying high it is the sign of good weather.
The old people say that if the cat is eating grass or drinking water it is the sign of wet weather.
If the dog is in near the fire in Summer, it is the sign of thunder.
If the sky is very dark and cloudy it is the sign that we are going to have a down pour of rain.
If the sky is very red in the evening it is the sign of a fine day.
- When the wild geese fly from the north, it is the sign of snow.
It is a very good sign of frost to have a moonlight night and the stars shining brightly.
A rainbow in the morning is the sign of a bad day, a rainbow in the evening is a good sign.
It is a sign of rain to see the swallows flying low, because when the air gets cold above, the flies come down and the swallows follow.
Another sign of rain is to see the floors weeping, or the cat with his back turned to the fire.
When the hills seem near it is the sign of bad weather, when they seem far away it is the sign of fine weather. - Collector
- Peggie Stapleton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs John Stapleton
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
