School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Charleville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Móráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0368, Page 180
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- When dark clouds rise in the sky to the South or West, with a strong wind blowing, it is a sure sign of rain.
If the moon is surrounded with a haze or halo there is rain coming.
When the sun sets with a coppery colour, it is also a sign of rain.
When swallow's fly low, skimming the fields it is a sign of wet weather.
If the stars twinkle a lot, of a bright night there is a storm coming.
When the sun sets encircled in banks of black clouds it is usually a forecast of a storm.
When the sun goes down in a rich, red glow, and the swallows fly high, there is fine warm weather to come.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Cregg
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrynderk South, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Denis Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrynderk South, Co. Limerick
