School: Morton St. Convent Nat. S. (roll number 12349)
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Miss Annie O' Dwyer
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- If a magpie passed over your head it would be the sign of bad weather, if two magpies passed you it would be the sign of good weather.
- Collector
- Eileen Richardson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Sunset. If the colour of the sky at sunset is red it foretells fine weather.
If the clouds were of a coppery or yellow tint around where the sunset, such a sky foretells rain.
Moon. If there is a halo round the moon at night it foretells wet weather.
In some hot places before a great thunderstorm the little birds stop singing.(continues on next page)