School: Dunleer (B.) (roll number 1306)
- Location:
- Dunleer, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ó Ceallaigh
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- 1, In olden times the used have strange ways of knowing what kind of weather they were going to have. According to what I hear from my father and mother here are some of the signs that they believe in.
2. Rain Signs
Heavy black clouds. A cat scraping wood
A cat with her back to the fire.
A cat eating grass on sunny day.
The wind whistling through the keyhole. The smoke blowing down.
Soot falling down(continues on next page)- Collector
- Vincent King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunleer, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs V. King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunleer, Co. Louth