School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)
- Location:
- Kiltullagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seasnáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0034, Page 0421
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- Here is a peom with a lot of weather guides contained in it.
I
The stormy winds begin to blow,
The clouds look black the glass is low,
The suter falls down, the Spaniards sleep
And spiders from their Cobwebs creep;
Last night the sun went pale to bed
The moon so hallowed hid her head
The Colding shepherd heaves a sigh
to see a rainbow span the sky.
The walls are damp the ditches smell
Closed is the pink-eye pinker nell
Hark! how the chairs and tables crack
Old Betty's joints are on the racks.
II
Lo o'er the grass the swallow wings
The cricket too how sharp he sings
The puss on the hearth with velvet paws
Sits wiping o'er his whiskered jaws
My dog so altered in his taste
Ginds mutton bones and grasps a feast
Hark! how the chairs and tables crack:
Old Betty's joints are on the rack.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killarriv, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Keogh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Killarriv, Co. Galway
