School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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- When the line of smoke is going up straight out of the chimney it is said that it is the it is the sign of rain. The surest sign the people have about the weather is from the smoke. Another sign the people have about weather is when the smoke blows down into the kitchen it is the sign of bad weather. If the colour of the smoke is reddish it is the sign of rain. It is said that when there is a purple blaze in the fire it is the sign of fine weather. When we are going to have bad weather the soot falls down the chimney. People say that we are going to have bad weather when it is hard to light the fire. When we are going to have fine weather it is easy to light the fire.
- Collector
- Margaret Troy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Tobias Troy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- When the colour of the sky is dark and dull it is a sign that we are going to get rain, but when the sky is bright it is a sign that(continues on next page)
