School: Baile an Daingin (B) (roll number 1676)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus P. Ó Gríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 819
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- (continued from previous page)One man in a field on a fine day is better than twenty men in a field on a wet day.
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Keep a thing seven years an you will find a use for it.
It is not always the big men who reap the harvest.
The hills are green far away.
The sheep look like lambs far away
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Foreign cows have long horns
Sgubann sgabin go glan
Hunger is very good saus
Buy the best and leave the rest
Too much hurry is haste
Nature breaks out through the eyes of the cat.
As long as the rogue goes he is caught a last.
it's often a man's mouth blackens his eyes.
The pot cannot call the kettle black.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Louis Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Branraduff, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Branraduff, Co. Mayo
