School: Naas (Mercy Convent) (roll number 15040)
- Location:
- An Nás, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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Weather-lore
Although many of the popular weather- signs are not to be relied upon certain items of weather lore are true particularly with regard to the immediate future. There is a real foundation for the old belief that - A red sky in the
morning
To the shepherds warning
A red sky at night is
the shepherd's delight."
A blur or haze about the setting sun is thought to be a token of coming storms, and a green or yellow hue is the sky at sunset is also a bad omen.
A clean bright moon is thought a sign of fine weather while a misty misty moon or one surrounded by a halo is thought an omen of rain -
If the moon shows like a silver
shield,
Be not afraid to reap your field.
But if she rises halved round,
Soon we'll tread on deluged ground"
In Scotland a halo round the moon is thought to foretell cold, rough, weather. The Dutch, however think a hale(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Coffey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Nás, Co. Chill Dara
- Informant
- Noel Coffey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Nás, Co. Chill Dara
