School: Kilgobnet
- Location:
- Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
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- (continued from previous page)are brighter than usual. The Gaibirin Roe is heard.
Signs of wind.
The clouds chasing each other around the sky. The crows fly in flocks around the sky cawing. The sheep and goats come down from the mountain to the lowland.
Signs of fine weather. A red cloud appears in the sky in the west. The corn-crake starts singing. The clouds get a prink colour.Signs of thunder. The sky gets dark and gloomy and the sky takes on a copper colour.
The Gap wind is considered the worst wind around here. They are always sure that we will have a bad gale if the wind is coming from the gap.My mother told me this
Mrs James Cahill,
Shanacloon,
Beaufort,
Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Nora Cahill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanacloon, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs James Cahill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanacloon, Co. Kerry
