School: Coill Chogaidh
- Location:
- Kilcogy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Mhuiris
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- 1. A sloe year is a woe year.
2. A haw year is a breág year
3. When the cuckoo sings on a bare thorn sell your cow and buy in corn.
4. A wet and windy May fills the garden with corn and hay.
5. Seagulls on land denotes storms a sea.
6. When the cat scrapes timber it is the sign of wind.
7. When the doors creak it is the sign of good weather.
8. When the crows fly westward in the evenings it is the sign of good weather.
9. From whatever point the wind blows on Hallowe'en night it shall blow that way for the rest of the year.
10. A green Christmas is the(continues on next page)
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