School: Ballydurrow
- Location:
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hadarnáin
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If the first day of January is dry, then you will have a good dry year.
Whatever way the wind blows on Easter Sunday it will blow oftenest during the year.
A long fair brings a long foul and vice versa, meaning that if you have a long spell of dry weather you will afterwards have a long spell of rain.
All the months of the year curse a fair February.
That means that if February is a nice warm dry month, all the other months of the year will be bad.
Frost and rain and frost again. This is a blacksmith's description of the winter storms. It means that a little white watery frost is always followed by a big dash of rain and that being done, frost comes again to dry up the ground again.
No matter how bad the weather may be during the week, Saturday evening will come dry, as the ancients say, to dry the priest's shirt.
A dry Sunday after a wet week, is a sign of another bad week to follow.
If you have a very hard winter it is expected that a good Summer will follow.
A wet and windy May fills the haggard(continues on next page)
