School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)
- Location:
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Muiris Mac Gearailt
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- (continued from previous page)If you hear the Atlantic Ocean roaring near Tullaghan it is a sure sign of a great storm but, if you hear it roaring at the mouth of the river Erne it is a sure sign of good weather.
In the evening when the sun is setting and the sky is a pale red in the west it is a sign that the next day will rain but, if the sky is red in the east it is a sign of good weather.
In the evening if Goats hair which it is locally called appears in the sky it is a sign of heavy rain.
At night when it is getting(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteendarragh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Pat Mc Sharry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Sracummer, Co. Leitrim
