School: Na Creaga
- Location:
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Breandáin

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- 46ProverbsA good boot is better than a pound in your pocket.
The day of the storm is not the day of the scallop.
Waste not, want not.
He who sows shall reap.
Two heads are wiser than one.
The long road is the safe road.
Neither a borrower or a lender be.
Its an ill wind that does nobody good.
All words are not be be believed or carried further.
Kindness adds sweetness to everything.
A proud man is seldom a kind man.
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.
Too much gossip is not good for anybody.
He that by the plough must thrive, he himself must either lead or drive.
A man without and wearing good clothes is like a gold ring in a barrow pig's(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Geraghty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Informant
- William Keaveney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creggs, Co. Galway