School: Carlingford (B.)
- Location:
- Carlingford, Co. Louth
- Teacher: C. Ó Blunaigh
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- Gerald Mc Grath
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castle Hill, Co. Louth
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- Patrick Boyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castle Hill, Co. Louth
- Contributed by Gerald McGrath, Castle Hill.
1. Home, Sweet Home and the fire out.
2. It is hard to get a good hook for a bad harvest man.
3. A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
4. It is often a person's mouth broke his nose.
5. People meet but the hills and fields don't meet.
6. Get up out of bed, the man of the house. I am asleep and don't waken me. - Contributed by Joseph McCrum, Sth. Commons.
1. The much travelled talk little.
2. Cows far off wear long horns.
3. Four things an Irishman can't trust: A cow's horn - A horse's hoof - a Dog's snarl and an Englishman's laugh.
4. Truth will never hang a person.
