School: Lisdowney, Ballyragget
- Location:
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mheachair
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- XML “Local Prayers”
- XML “Proverbs”
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- Collector
- Josie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyphilip, Co. Kilkenny
- "A face that cannot smile is never good." "How much the dunce that has been sent to Rome excels the dunce that has been kept at home." "There is no use crying over spilt milk." "No man is happy unless he thinks himself so." "It is not good that every man should travel it makes a wise man better and a fool worse." "Music is the medicine of a broken heart." "Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone for this sad old earth has to borrow its mirth, it has grief enough of its own." "He who receives a benefit should never forget it and he who bestows it should never remember it.(continues on next page)