School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)
- Location:
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Muiris Mac Gearailt
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- (continued from previous page)sign of a great storm to see a dog eating grass on the road. A good sign of the weather is to see a white mist going out the mountain.
A sign of rain is to see the swallows flying low over the land but, the reason for this is that the flys come down near the land and the swallows are after them.
Another sign of rain is to see the fish jumping straight up out of the water in the lake.
At Ganavagh shore there is an old rock in the lake which is called the Black Rock and when there is no water around it the rain is going to fall until it is(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
