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During the lockdown we started having outdoor sessions at Graffy Bridge near Glenties. Jimmy Campbell told us a story about a woman called Peggy who lived close to the waterfall which we could see from the bridge. The waterfall is called Peggy’s Eas (eas is waterfall in Irish) and people used to reference it to the weather. They would say, “What colour is Peggy’s eas today?”. If it was brown, it was good weather and if it was yellow, it was bad.
