School: Cill Mín, Béal Átha Fhinghín (roll number 12160)

Location:
Cill Mhín, Co. Chorcaí
Teacher:
Ite Dawson
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0308, Page 019

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0308, Page 019

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 Mín, Béal Átha Fhinghín
  2. XML Page 019
  3. XML “Local 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

  1. 1. Sea making a great noise - bad weather coming.
    2. Cows go to fences for shelter.
    3. Dogs run into houses at approach of thunder.
    4. Streams make a great noise at approach of rain.
    5. Ponds fill up.
    6. Fog and mist on the hills.
    7. A "scream" from the sea.
    8. Cattle remain in centre of field when weather is "settled".
    9. A ring around the moon - rain.
    10. When the cat is continually "washing" face - bad weather
    11. Sun looking dull - rain.
    12. South-west wind - rain.
    13. Strong rattle in streams - rain.
    14. Darkness over the hills.
    15. North wind - snow.
    16. Birds fly in from sea when is storm is coming at sea.
    17. Mist on one hill at approach of frosty weather.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. seánra
      1. seanchas aimsire (~6,442)
    Language
    English