School: Johnstown (C.) (roll number 2919)
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Laochdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0869, Page 057
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- March in Sarch
April dry
May will tell you if you live or die,
February filled dike black or white.
If you dont says March I will.
May wet and windy
Makes the harvest full and plenty.
When the cuckoo sings on the white thorn,
Sell your horse and buy corn.
Wind without rain for a lamb
And rain without wind for a calf.
Above all the months of the year
Curse a fine February.
A sign of bad weather is to see a circle around the moon.
And the nearer the circle the further the rain
And the further the circle the nearer the rain
When the curlews go to the bog it is a sign of fine weather.
And when they go to the hill it is a sign of wet weather.
If bumble bees are plenty at night bad weather is to follow.
If sheep be found lying in the fields in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sadie Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyspellan, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Patrick Hughes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyspellan, Co. Kilkenny
