School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 273
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- (continued from previous page):- frost and snow is in Scotland.
16 A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning a rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.
17 When the goats come home :- storm.
18 The midges bite when the rain is coming and the distant mountains seem to be near.
19 The cat with her back to the fire :- rain.
20 If it dose not rain before 12 o'clock on a cloudy day it will not rain any that day.
21 "What Friday takes in the morning it keeps till night. "
22 Rays from the sun :- rain.
23 When the sun goes down in a bank of clouds:- rain.
24 Red clouds in the North:- snow.
25 Red clouds, herringbones, mares tail:- rain.
26 When the bees are reluctant to part(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Emma Leyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
