School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 122
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- Local Sayings
Send a goose round the world and it will come back as a goose.
You don't be half pleased when you are vexed.
Far away fields looks green.
Far away cows have long horns.
Pat from home had never been a railway train he never seen. He longed to see that big machine that was along the railway.
There was a fellow, met a fellow, in a field of beans. Says a fellow, to a fellow, could a fellow, tell a fellow what a fellow means.
The day of the wind is not the day of the scollop.
It's dangerous to move old furniture (said about marrying an old maid).
From Carrickmacross to Crossmaglen, there are more rogues than honest men.
It's an ill wind but blows some-body good.
He would argue the black crow white.
There was a time when (when) pigs were swine, and turkeys chewed tobacco, and birds built their nest in old mens(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mc Elwain
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carnquill, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- John Mc Elwain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Carnquill, Co. Monaghan
