School: Ros Inbhir (roll number 14501)
- Location:
- Rossinver, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Aoidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 350
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- (continued from previous page)As if they felt a piercing ball.
At eve, the squallid toad is seen.
Hopping and crawling over the green.
The frog has changed his yellow vest,
And in a russet coat is dressed.
The whirling winds,the dust obey,
And in a rapid they doth play."
The lines that I have written above are the signs of rain that are the locally. The south-west winds are locally known as the wet winds, and the north-east winds are locally known as the dry winds. When the weather is going to change from fair and fine to wet and wild there are many signs observed by the local people such as a blow down the chimney. When the floor becomes damp and dark, and the crows are seen to inhabit the lowlands, and when the moorfowl descend from the mountains, and when the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cathleen Feely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Larganhugh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Terence Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Larganhugh, Co. Leitrim
