School: Cill Rosanta (C.), Coill Mhic Thomáisín

Location:
Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Áine Ní Fhaoláin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0648, Page 40

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0648, Page 40

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cill Rosanta (C.), Coill Mhic Thomáisín
  2. XML Page 40
  3. XML “Signs of Rain”

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

  1. (continued from previous page)
    4. Red sparks called soldiers on the pot or kettle are the sign of rain
    5. When we see a dog eating grass this is a sign of rain.
    6. Blue in the fire, foretells rain.
    7. The distant hills looking nigh, tells us of Rain.
    8. The swine to be restless, is a sign of rain
    9. The cricket singing sharply brings rain
    10. The busy fly disturbs the kine in wet weather.
    11. The frog changes its colour in wet weather.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Kirwan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Bridget Kirwan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford