School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- Eamonn Ó Riain
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossard, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Patrick O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Crossard, Co. Clare
- Signs of rain: The wild geese flying against the wind, the wind whistles loudly through the key hole, the ceiling begins to creek, to hear the curlews on the dry land, the corns begin to pain terrible, the walls of the house weeping.
Collected by: – Seán Pilcington Lemeneigh.
Told by: – George Pelkington, Lemeneigh, (his father)
(55years) - Signs of rain: - The salt gets damp, a white frost comes on the ground, the wind is from the south west.
Collected by: - Tomás Hawes, Roughan.
Told by: – Mary Gilligan, Roughan, (his aunt)
(75 years)
