School: Cill Eirc
- Location:
- Killark, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac Druaidhe
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- (continued from previous page)is a sign of good weather.
It is believed that when a cat is seen scraping her nails on a tree or on a board that is a sign of rain. If a curlew gives a single call that is a sign of rain, and if she gives a double call there will be good weather. It is supposed that when the smoke is going towards the South there will be good weather, and if it is going towards the North that is a sign of bad weather.
When we have a bright moon it is said that we are having good weather. When we have a dark colored moon we are having wet weather.
When you see some of the clouds going towards the north and some of them going to the south it is a sign of thunder storm. It is said that there will be frost if there is sheet lightning at night. When ever you see a flock of crows flying in the air we will have bad weather.
When the crane sits near the edge of a drain it is a sign of rain.
When the wildgeese are shouting it is(continues on next page)
