School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Pól
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0629, Page 521
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: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- XML Page 521
- XML “Weather-Lore”
- XML “Weather-Lore”
- XML “Weather-Lore”
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
- (continued from previous page)rain.
- When the Kerry mountains or Scattery Island seem near it is a sign of bad weather. The blaze in the fire turns blue when bad weather is approaching.
- When the Kerry mountains can be seen very clearly it is the sign of heavy rain also when the cat turns his back to the fire. When there is a blue flame coming out of the fire and when the soot falls down the chimney, it is also a sign of bad weather. When the dust of the road is seen flying and when a dog eats grass by the roadside, when the sheep run to the hedge for shelter and when one’s corns ache, all these portend(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Howard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
