School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)

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1. Weather-Signs

   

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   Weather Signs 1. When you are going to have very heavy rain, the sky will be as red as fire in the east. 2. When you see all the sprigs rising we know we are going to have fine weather. 3. When we are going to have heavy rain there comes a big circle in the sky called a rainbow, it has many colours. 4. When the smoke goes up straight we will have fine weather and when it goes down we generally have rain.

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      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
   2. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)

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   English

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   “There lived between Slanduff and Walterstown in an old thatched house a family called Mulligans.”

   

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   There lived between Slanduff and Walterstown in an old thatched house a family called Mulligans. There were all carpenters and they used to work for all the people in the neighbourhood.

   Written by
   Thomas Tuohy
   Walterstown
   Garlow Cross,
   Navan

   Given by
   Patrick Tuohy (farmer)
   Walterstown,
   Garlow Cross
   Navan
   (50 years)

   

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3. Caudy Maguire

   

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   There was a man named Caudy Maguire and he was a cow-doctor. He used to cure cattle without giving them any medicine. He would order porter for them and would drink the porter himself.

   

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