School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (roll number 5215)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John McGee
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- (continued from previous page)all disappeared from Barney's Bocarin.
- 1. A windy day is not the day for thatching.
2. What the ear will not hear, will not trouble.
3. A closed mouth and a wise head.
4. On the pig's back.
5. When the wine is in the sense is out.
6. People meet but the hills or the mountains do not meet.
7. A blind man is a bad judge of colours.
8. Throwing apples into the orchard.
9. A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
10. Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
11. There is no help or cure against death.
12. The grip of a drowning man.
13. You cannot whistle and chew meal.
14. Tell me your company and I will tell you who you are. - Informant
- Michael Ferguson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ardnaree or Shanaghy, Co. Mayo
