School: Baile Uí Mheirigín, Merginstown
- Location:
- Merginstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhearrachtáin
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- (continued from previous page)earth in the one townland there will someone die in that townland.Clouds
If the Clouds are red in the morning it is going to rain that day.
If the clouds are red in the evening it is going to be very fine.Storms
A river roars when it is going to freeze
Chimneys smoke when there is going to be snow
Soot falls when it is going to rain,
Turkeys get up on walls or boughs of trees when it is going to rain
Frogs come in when there is going to be a storm.
When a lot of fleas come into a house there is going to be a snowstorm.
Hens pick their feathers before it rains
Crows begin diving downwards when there is a storm coming
Swallows fly low when it is going to rain,
Midges bite when a storm is coming
Cats get up close to the fire when a snowstorm is coming.
Dogs eat grass when when there is going to be a storm.
Goat-hair in the sky indicates wind.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Shemus Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullycagh Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr James Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Mullycagh Lower, Co. Wicklow
