School: Bearna na Gaoithe, Carraig na Siúire
- Location:
- Windgap or Ardmore, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Cáit Pléimeann
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- Here in Ireland there are many old sayings about the seasons and also about the weather.
We are told that we should never bathe in the open sea in the month of May for it is said that 'He who bathes in May will soon be laid in the clay'.
It was always believed and is still, that if it rains on St. Swithin's Day that we will have forty days rain.
If a cool August follows a hot July it betokens a hard Winter.
We are advised to lay in a good store of fuel for the Winter if the hare wears a thick coat in October.
If the leaves remain on the trees until November the coming Winter will be cold.
