School: An Bhlárna (C.)
- Location:
- Blarney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Winifred Scantlebury
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- A straight tree may have crooked roots.
Better to wear out shoes than sheets.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the rider was lost, all for the want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
He that by the plough would thrive, he himself must either hold or drive.
Though the sun shines leave not your cloak at home.
There's no fireplace like your own.
Throw not good money after bad.
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
You will never miss the water till the well runs dry.
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
Strike the iron while its hot.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Too late to save when all is spent.
A good name in a man or woman is the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Julia Ingerton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blarney, Co. Cork
