School: Lough Gur, Kilmallock (roll number 7117)
- Location:
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: T. Collins P. Ó Seaghdha
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- 1. Its many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
2. Its no use crying over spilt milk.
3. "O Muise" say's Nancy Till "what an occupation they have looking down the chimney at me.
4) "Such is life" says the old woman as she went off in the flood
5. All together like Brown's cows
6. "Hard lines" said the cat as he sat on the railway track
7. "There is nothing like a change" says the sweep when he turned his shirt
8. Every old shoe meets an old stocking
- Collector
- Pauline Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- 1/ "I was never happy," said John, "unless I was quarrelling" when he got the black eye.
2/ "Think twice before you speak once," said a man when he got into trouble on account of some foolish saying
