School: Mercy Convent, Monasterevan (roll number 15769)
- Location:
- Mainistir Eimhín, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Sr M. Stanislaus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 017
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- (continued from previous page)the water, because the people say they are flying away from a storm. In the Summer mornings if there is a fog it foretells a warm day, but it is the opposite to that in the Winter, as it brings rain. If the sky is red on a summer evening it is said that the next day will be hot. An old man was telling me one day that he always knows when it is going to rain. I asked him how did he know and he said "Me corns always begin to pain me and when the rain stops me corns stop paining me".Sadie O'Brien.Told to Sadie O'Brien by her Grandmother.
About 70 years S.M.S 30.3.38
- Collector
- Sadie O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
