School: Athboy
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Néill Tomás Ó Domhnalláin
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- (continued from previous page)smoke puffing, and plenariness of snails, and also midges, flying in groups, all indicate fine weather.When fogs go up in the sky in the morning it is a sign of rain.
- (continued from previous page)strong man. One day a man comes into the mill with forty stone of wheat in one sack. They had to carry it up a stairs, and they did not want to divide it. They got Patrick Duff to carry it for them. On the first landing there was a man and he told him to sit on the sack and keep it steady.
