School: Dromcollchoille (B.)
- Location:
- Drom Collachair, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Mathghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 003
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- The tales told by some aincent old folk of Erin are very useful and very interesting. I will now make an essay about the weather.
When the wild-geese are seen flying towards the East, the old folk say that bad weather is coming. Other signs of bad weather are, when a rainbow is seen in the morning as the old rhyme says, thus--,
A rainbow in the morning,
is the shepards warning,
A rainbow in the night,
is the shepards delight.
Other predictions of bad weather are, when the spiders creep from their cob-webs, when the dogs eat grass, and throw away fine mutton bones, when the frogs change their colour from yellow to black, when the sea-gulls are seen flying inland and when the birds are seen flying low. Bad weather also comes when a day that is called a pet day comes and the woolpacks are seen in the sky, and a storm is brooding when the sky is red to the East at night, and when a halo is seen around the moon bad weather is coming, and also when the soot falls(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jeremiah Newman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom Collachair, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Eugene O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Drom Collachair, Co. Luimnigh
