School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc

Location:
Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. Emerentia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 075

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 075

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    in doors and key holes; distant hills appearing near and blue; dark heavy clouds; wet walls; clouded moon; pale sun-sets and rays descending from the sun; robins perching on low branches; crows swarming around a house; crows swooping along like a kite; black frogs; cattle gathered together in a corner of a field; low flight of swallows; falling stars; water birds appear inland; old people complaining of rheumatism; dust rising from roads; soot falling; if it rains on Swithen's day it rains for forty days; curlews whistling; peacocks crying; cat washing his face; if mists rise and settle on hill tops; if the full moon rise pale; if cattle leave off eating and chase each other in the pasture; masses of black clouds
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