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School: Killoughternane, Borris

Location:
Killoughternane, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
T. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0905, Page 201

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  1. Local Weather Signs (continued)

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    Rained for 40 days so heavily they could not remove it and decided to leave it as it was.
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    Wild geese going South early in winter sign of hard frosty winter. If they go North early in Spring or end of Winter . Mild weather expected.
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    Beams of light from sun in evening portends rain.
    (14)
    Halo, round moon sign of rain. New moon on “on its back” points of crescent a bit up word hard weather.
    Peter Minchin
    Coolnacuppogue
    Corries
    Bagenalstown
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Minchin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolnacuppoge, Co. Carlow