School: Clara (2)
- Location:
- Clara, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thomáis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0807, Page 245
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- (continued from previous page)In Autumn I go round all the hedges looking for blackberries but I don not get many. There are a good many blackberry bushes up the Curragh Road.
There are nine crab trees there too.
Some sundays in the windter there is hare racing up there and a lot of people go to it.
In the field at the back of our house hockey is played every Saturday in the Winter.
In Bogtown hurling is played every Friday night in the Summer.
- Weatherlore
By Doris WilliamsIt is rains heavily and there are pools in a filed and if they dry up very quickly we are going to have very wet weather.
if the moon looks watery we are going to have a wet day.If the stars are up we shall have fine weather.
When the plovers are on high land it is a sign of hard weather and when they are on low ground we have fine weather.
When the smoke is touching the ground it is a sign of rains and when the swallows are flying low it is(continues on next page) - Collector
- Doris Williams
- Gender
- Female
