School: Coolboyoge
- Location:
- Coolboyoge, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Roddy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0974, Page 186
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Coolboyoge
- XML Page 186
- XML “Weather Signs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- When the wind is coming from the North it is the sign of good weather.
When it is coming from the South it is the sign of rain.
When it is coming form the East, it is noted for bringing a lot of sickness.
When the sun sinks red in the West it is the sigh of the following day being good.
When the sky is full of stars and them shining it is the sign of a frost.
When the swallow skims the water it is the sign of rain and when the fly high it is the sign of good weather.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Brown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Butler's Bridge, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Butler's Bridge, Co. Cavan
