School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 125
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- (continued from previous page)"Seagulls and Curlews; they fly inland and screech.
7. When it is going to snow, we always see the "Blackbird the Thrush and the Robin, the old people used to call them "snow birds"
8. The "Seagulls" the Curlews" and the crows and the Magpies are called the "rain birds."
We have many signs from the cat, the dog and also the horse, of bad weather. The cat and the dog eat grass when rain is coming. The cats also get right up near the fire and sleep while the dog rolls on the road. The horse give one of the surest signs according to one old person round here. "Because if there only a shower ahead, he will go under a ditch, but if it is sure to be wet he will remain out till he is drenched, and then go in for shelter. Insects are thick in the air, when rain is near. There is a sign in the fire too, the soot falls.
- Collector
- Maureen Berry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
