School: Bigstone, Baltinglas (roll number 14643)

Location:
Ballyraggan, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Héilighe
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  1. There are many signs of the wind by which we know what kind of weather is coming. The North wind brings very cold weather and frost and snow and the South wind brings showers and the East wind would skin man or beast and the West wind brings showery sleety weather.
    When the wind blows from the Colliery we may be expecting bad weather. There are two other ways in which it is very cold from Hacketstown direction and the Colliery direction
    The dog is an animal that shows there is going to be rain sometimes he runs off out in the park and
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      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cecilia Lawler
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tankardstown, Co. Kildare