J. M. Synge, Plays, Poems, and Prose (Everyman edn., London, 1941), p. 257
Curious that he quotes the writer Synge here or even that this is something Synge would have written.
I like the idea that a culture would have been able to keep time based on the direction of the wind.
Papers of John Millington Synge: Literary Papers
John Millington Synge, the author of [[The Playboy of the Western World]] has several digitized commonplace books available at [[Trinity College Dublin]]'s library:
https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/subseries/tx31qh73c?locale=en