School: Blacklion
- Location:
- Blacklion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Johnston
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0962, Page 140
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- (continued from previous page)If boys interfere with bird' nests, they are told the birds will forsake them. When wild geese appear early in winter, people say we will have a stormy winter. If the swallow and cuckoo are later than usual in arriving we have a late Spring. Swallows flying high show that good weather is coming. If low, rain follows. Seagulls flying inland portent a storm.
When the curlew and peacock call loudly, rain usually follows. When wild geese call to each other they are supposed to be discussing the direction they are going in.
- Collector
- Rupert Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullaghbane, Co. Fermanagh
- Informant
- Mrs Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullaghbane, Co. Fermanagh
