School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 332a
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- (continued from previous page)When hens are seen preening themselves, the country people say we will have rain.When cricket sings sharply or when crows tumble about in their flight people say rain is approaching.When we see the crows settling themselves on the backs of the ditches, or the lapwings inclined to go on their sides it is locally believed we will have a wind storm.November Night 1937, left the wind South East - a sure sign of a dry, hard, cold winter.When people are atacked by rheumatic pains or neuralgia they say that we are near rain or broken weather.When spiders leave their cobwebs wet weather is approaching.In good weather frogs are yellow and in bad weather they are black.
- Collector
- Thérèse Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockglass, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Cunningham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 92
- Address
- Carkfree, Co. Roscommon
