School: Lough Gur, Kilmallock (roll number 7117)
- Location:
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: T. Collins P. Ó Seaghdha
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- 1. Its a long lane has no turn. 2. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
3. Its an ill wind that blows nobody good.
4. A closed mouth catches no flies. 5. A barking dog seldom bites.
6. A fool and his money soon part.
7. Pigs are pigs wherever they are.
8. There is many a change between cradle and grave.
9. An empty bag cannot stand.
10. "Time flies" said the man as he threw his watch into the lake.
11. Through hatred often returns to love an instant here receive it the more you hate to go to bed, the more you hate to leave it.
12. An egg without salt, is like a kiss without a moustache.
- 1/ "All going through life", says the old woman, and she going off with the flood.
2/ "Wherever there are women there is talk."
3/ "Sunday's wash for Sundays's dash" - Collector
- John Stapleton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilballyowen, Co. Limerick
