School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- Nóra Ní Chasadaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycasheen, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Tomás Ó Casadaigh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballycasheen, Co. Clare
- Signs of rain: The wild geese descend from the north. The starlings come on the housetops. Yellow ashes.
Collected by: - Seosamh Mac Giolla Coisgle Coad
Told by: – John Costello. Coad (his father)
(58 years) - Signs of a frost: The smoke ascending very straight, a robin perched on the sill of a window.
Collected by: - Máire Ní Fhógartaigh, Poundtown
Told by: – Tomás Ó Fógartaigh, Poundtown, (her father)
(55 years) - Signs of rain: The sky becomes dark and gloomy; the cattle run from the flies, the frogs are heard croaking in drains and marsh, the West Clare train makes great noise.Collected by: - Tadhg Ó Diolúin, Crossard.
Told by: – Martin Mac Mahon, Crossard, (his grandfather)
(66 years)
