School: Loch Rois (roll number 1751)
- Location:
- Loughros, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Stiofán Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0198, Page 017
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- Weather is a very important question of the Irish life and perhaps an important question all over the world. It lingers on and on from the time of God knows when and it is still on and perhaps may be on forever. There lived a lot of people in by gone ages who had a great of telling the weather signs, and one of those men dwelt very near my own place Kiltyclogher.
Between Glenfarne and Kiltyclogher there is a small hill dotted here and there with tiny little bushes called hawthorns and in the midst of these lie a small limeciln. It happened one night as this man looked out at the dark sky and the stars sparkling, he spied a lot of tiny men dancing around the lime ciln and a golden coffin in their hands.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eilish Mc Guire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
