School: Baile na Cille, Roscrea (roll number 10350)
- Location:
- Baile na Coille, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: F. Bergin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0548, Page 078
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- Rain = (1) A Ring around the Moon.
(2) A cat tearing a board.
(3) Midges on a sunny day
(4) When your feet are sore.
(5) When you are sleepy.
(6) When the walls and floors are damp
(7) A Cat with its back to the fire
(8) Red sky around the rising of the sun.
(9) When the frog has changed his vest and in a russet coat is dressed
Good Weather =
(1) To hear a woodquest on a dry or hot day.
(2) When the sun goes down red.
(3) A spider coming down from the roof of a house, on a cob-web.
(4) To see sheep lying down early in the morning.
- Collector
- Philip Bergin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an Phionna, Co. Thiobraid Árann
