School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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Weather Signs
Puffs of smoke coming down the kitchen chimney foretells rain.
The darkening and dampening of the earthen or flagged floor of the kitchen during fine weather foretells a break inside of four days.
The same sign in broken weather foretells heat.
When the cows in the field are covered with big flies, it is a sign of coming rain.
When the midges are particularly viscious in the evening, It will rain on the morrow, Flying ants, crawling on the ground protend rain.
There are coal mines in this locality When the air is bad it denotes change in the weather. If the weather be(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. Mc Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rover Lower, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Arigna, Co. Roscommon
