School: Dundalk (Mercy Convent) (roll number 5387)
- Location:
- Dundalk, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. Pól
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- (continued from previous page)be expected.
In the Spring the oak and the ash trees were watched closely, because it was said that the budding of the oak because the ash meant a fine Summer, where as if the ash budded first it was a bad sign.
In this district a south-west wind nearly always brings rain. A north-wind means dry weather or frost in Winter, where as the east-wind means bitter cold weather.
These signs were all well known to older people who always placed great faith in them.
Mena Gernon
6 Seatown
Dundalk
Information received from Michael McArdle
5 Seatown
Dundalk.
- Collector
- Mena Gernon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Seatown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Michael Mc Ardle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Seatown, Co. Louth
