School: Tamhnach, Inis
- Location:
- Toonagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Proinnsias Gordún
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- (continued from previous page)If the sky is red where the sun sets it is a sign of rain.
If there were ants on the road it would be a sign of rain.
If the sun is smothered when it is setting it is a sign of rain.
If the hens were picking their feathers it would be a sign of rain.
If the wind is coming from the South it is a sign of rain.
On the twenty fourth of June, the Fair of Spancihill, it is always wet. - Signs of the weather are birds flying low, seagulls coming in to land, soot falling, a ring the moon or a clouded moon. When the meat is wet it is a sign of bad weather or the water bubbling: or to see wild swans, or the cat to sit near the fire with his back to it.
A mackerel sky is the sign of good weather. Old people feel their corns in(continues on next page)- Collector
- Thomas Fitzgibbon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Daniel Fitzgibbon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Ballygriffy South, Co. Clare