School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 331
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- (continued from previous page)When they sing - sign of good weather
In the aged when rheumatism is troublesome - sign of rain
A blow-down of smoke - sign of frost
When salt is wet - sign of rain
When white-thorns and blackthorns are in bloom together - sign of wet summer.
If you kill a clock - next day will be fine
From what ever direction the wind blows on Hallow Eve night it will blow mainly from that direction for six months.
If an ass eats thistles on a Sunday - it will be a bad harvest.
When there are many "cuckoo spits" on the grass - sign of a hot summer.
When sloes are plentiful - sign of a bad harvest.
When haws are plentiful - sign of a good harvest."A haw year is a braw year
a sloe year is a low year"Rosaleen Johnston
14 years on the 7th June 1937
Got from - Mary Callaghan,
Drumliff,
Age 79 years.
- Collector
- Rosaleen Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Mary Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. Cavan
