School: Cloncovid
- Location:
- Cloncovet, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: S. Savage
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- Weather Lore. 3rd June 1938Some people depend on signs on the sky and animals and birds and insects as weather prophets.
For rain are as follows:- the sun rising in the morning with a red colour all around it, when a bright circle is seen a long distance from the moon, a rainbow in the morning, when crows cluster in the fields, when the dog eats grass, when the cat sits with her back to the fire, the ducks quack loudly, the peacock crys, hills in the distance look nigh.
Storm are as follows:-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie E. Comaskey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloncovet, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Bernard Comad
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloncovet, Co. an Chabháin
