School: Naomh Peadar, Droichead Átha (roll number 11072)

Location:
Drogheda, Co. Louth
Teacher:
S. Mac Maoláin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 098

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 098

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Naomh Peadar, Droichead Átha
  2. XML Page 098
  3. XML “Weather-Lore”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Horses, cats & dogs get restless when there is going to be a storm. When mountains can be seen very clearly it is a sign of rain.
    If the dust on roads rises in clouds it is a sign of rain. "When the north wind doth blow we shall have snow-." "The oak before the ash there will only be a splash, but the ash before the oak there will be a soak."
    Mid-Summer's rain spoils hay & grain.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    L. Matthews
    Address
    Skylea, Co. Louth