School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)no need to perform any duties. Thus saving his own life from the hands of the priest hunter.
- The people in this district of Hall, Moate, have many saying which the old people made use of. When a man was about to marry. The woman of the house would repeat this proverb.
"Before you marry be sure to have a house where in to tarry." Another is, Kindle the dry stick and the green ones will catch.
"It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen." There is also a rhyme about the wren.
"The wren, the wren, the king of all(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maureen Berry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
