School: Baile an tSagairt (roll number 13985)
- Location:
- Ballysaggart, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Prionnsias Ua Coilín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1039, Page 3
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- 1. When dogs eat grass.
2. When weasels get very numerous about the roads and ditches.
3. When swallows fly low.
4. When the sea gulls light on the field in flocks.
5. When you see the cat sitting on the fire-flag with her tail to the fire.
6. Sea gulls screaming.
7. Turkeys keep about the doors.
8. When storks come up a river.
9. When you see goats [sic] whiskers in the sky.
10. A red setting sun.
11. An unusually bright morning.
12. The setting sun covered with mist.
13. A continual blowing of North wind followed by a sudden calmness.
14. A sultry night in the winter time.
15. When the distant lands look near.
16. A person subject to rheumatisms [sic] will feel them rather severe with the approach of rain.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Cready
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
