School: Killyon (roll number 7120)
- Location:
- Killyon, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Fithcheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)the morning is a sailors warning. A rainbow at night is a sailors delight. The goat bleats, the hens pick their feathers, the ducks quack and the geese flap their wings as if in water. The turkeys move about drowsily as if sick - all signs of rain.
- Written by: Joan Keegan, Newtown, Hill-of-Down, Co. Meath. Told by Thomas Kearney, Clondalee, Hill-of-Down, Co. Meath.These are the signs of rain:- When the sun goes down pale, When the stars move across the sky and fall(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown or Cloneen, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Thomas Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clondalee Beg, Co. Meath
