School: Doire an Céise (C )
- Location:
- Doire na Ceise, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uaid
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- (continued from previous page)able to foretell. If they chattered early in the morning it was a sign of trouble.
When the blackbird hops along the back of the ditch it is a sign of snow. - 5. It is the sign of rain to hear the birds singing loudly.
- Collector
- Kathleen Floody
- Gender
- Female
- 6. The robin builds her nest in a ditch and lays four eggs. She never eats anything until twelve o'clock on Good Friday in honour of Our Saviour's death. When a robin comes to the door it is the sign of rain.
Some people say that when the birds are fat in October that the winter will be very cold.- Collector
- Philomena Mc Phillips
- Gender
- Female
- 7. The cuckoo is the sign of Spring. It never makes a nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds who hatch and feed the young cuckoos(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Shalvey
- Gender
- Female