School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 376
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- The name of the townland I live in is Sherlockstown. The parish is Athboy. There are seven families in it. The most common name in Sherlockstown is Sherlock. There is one man in Sherlockstown named Matthew Sherlock over eighty. The land is good.
- Collector
- Francis Sherlock
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Sherlock
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tlachta, Co. Meath
- It is a sign of bad weather to see the cat with her back to the fire and the dog in some corner asleep or outside eating grass. If you look up at the sky you notice the clouds rolling by very fast. When you see the sun red in the sky in the evening it is a sign of good weather. The wild geese screech when bad weather is coming. When there is a circle round the moon it is a sign(continues on next page)
