School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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- (continued from previous page)indications of the weather. The following are signs of rain frogs coming into the house, the spider coming out from his web, or the midges biting.
Other indications of rain are when hills appear to be near, when dust is rising on the road way, when there is fog around a river, when people with rheumatism have more severe pains or when a person's corns are paining them or when there is a white frost.
- There are many signs of the weather that the old people believed in long ago.
Sun
If the sun goes down pale in the evening or if there are streamers from it, it is a sign of bad weather.
Moon.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Mulvey
- Gender
- Male
