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School: Drumcoghill

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Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Uí Iomaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 216

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  1. Weather-Lore (continued)

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    Good Weather is near us.
    If the salt is not damp, and the walls are dry.
    If the cattle do not run or throw up their heels in the air.
    If the cat lies outside and does not sit with her back to the fire.
    If the Pains of Rheumatism are not troublesome.
    If the stars in the clear sky do not twinkle.
    If the hens ,ducks, geese and the other domestic animals are not too greedy and if they go out through the fields to forage.
    If the kitchen floor is dry and if the smoke does not blow through the kitchen.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mrs A. Montgomery
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Teacher
    Address
    Corr, Co. Cavan