School: Gleann an Chairthe (roll number 13345)
- Location:
- Glencar, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Mag Ualghairg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)Be just before you are generous
Charity begins at home
Content is more than a nation
Cleanliness is next to Godliness
Do not desert your friend for your own sake
Experience is a dear school but fools will learn in no other
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
For the Glory of God and the honour of Ireland
God made the back for the burden
God is nearer than the door
Hunger is good sauce
Health is better than wealth
He comes without asking like the bad weather
He would hear the grass growing
However long the night day comes at last
Its a long road taht has no turning
It is better to bend than to break
It is the heaviest ear of corn that hangs its head the lowest
It is the empty cart that makes most noise
It is a small wind that would not bend a blade of grass
It is difficult to put a wise head on young shoulders
It is easier to fall than to rise(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Mary Gilligan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Fenagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Drumdillure, Co. Leitrim
