School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 234
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- Local Sayings
Send a goose round the world and it will come back a goose.
There is no fire like your own fireside.
Sit on your heels till the stool is made.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
The day of the wind is not the day of the scollop.
A nod is enough to a blind horse.
Many hands make light work.
Far away cows have long horns.
Our cat has a long tail.
"Rightly" the way Paddy broke the shaft.
A cock can crow on it's own dung-hill.
It is dangerous to move old furniture. (said about marrying an old girl).
How are you doing? I am doing everybody and everybody is doing me.
There was a time when pigs were swine and turkeys chewed tobacco and birds built their nests in old men's beards.
A man without money needs no purse and a man without learning is nine times worse.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
It's a long road that has no turn to it.
Pat from home had never been a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernard Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrynasell East, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Joe Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Derrynasell East, Co. Monaghan
