School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 130
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- Weather Signs
1. When you are going to have very heavy rain, the sky will be as red as fire in the east.
2. When you see all the sprigs rising we know we are going to have fine weather.
3. When we are going to have heavy rain there comes a big circle in the sky called a rainbow, it has many colours.
4. When the smoke goes up straight we will have fine weather and when it goes down we generally have rain.
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“There lived between Slanduff and Walterstown in an old thatched house a family called Mulligans.”
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- Thomas Tuohy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Patrick Tuohy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- There was a man named Caudy Maguire and he was a cow-doctor. He used to cure cattle without giving them any medicine. He would order porter for them and would drink the porter himself.
