School: Leath-árdán
- Location:
- Lahardaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 74
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- 1. It is often a person's mouth broke his nose.
2. It is hard to pluck wool of a goat.
3. The truth never choked a man.
4. There is no help or cure against the death.
5. God made the back for the burden.
6. A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
7. Praise youth and it will come.
8. Hunger is good sauce.
9. Have it your self or be without it.
10. People meet but the hills never meet.
11. Hills look green far away.
12. Lie with the lamb rise with the bird.
13. Your pocket is your friend.
14. If the cap suits you wear it.
15. A new brush sweeps clean.
16. One penny gets another.
17. There is no place like home.
- Collector
- Nora Mayock
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cum, Co. Mayo
