School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Céin
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- (continued from previous page)we are to have fine weather. If the kitchen floor of flags or cement gets damp and wet it is a sign of rain. When the swallows fly very low in summer it shows that rain is to follow. When a cool August bellows a hot fall and betokens a snowy winter. If the hare wears a thick coat in the October, lay in a good store of fuel. If we see a blue flame in the fire and see the soot falling it’s a sign of rain. When the curlew give the double whistle it fortells rain. If the plover come inland before October it shows we are to have a hard winter.
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- Collector
- Con Houlihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 50
- Address
- Ahaneboy, Co. Kerry