School: Naas (Mercy Convent) (roll number 15040)
- Location:
- Naas, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- (continued from previous page)round the sun indicates worse weather
than one round the moon.
then we have the simpler weather sign
used by the people of the present day.
The cat clawing or scraping at articles
made of wood, shows that we are going
to have rain. Another sign of rain is the curlew crying at night. When lambs
frolic madly, kicking out sideways,
shepherds say it is a sign of rain, and
when sheep grow frisky and butt at each other, at storm is at hand.- Collector
- Kathleen Coffey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Naas, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Noel Coffey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Naas, Co. Kildare