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 250
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- (continued from previous page)It is not possible to be eating a meal and whistling at the same time.
It is difficult to cut wool off a goat.
Look before you leap.
Lie with the lamb and rise with the bird.
Leave that as it is and Dublin where it is
Little and often makes a heap in time
Let well enough alone
Man proposes but God disposes
Marry a mountain woman and you marry the mountain
Nature is stronger than training
Put a beggar on horseback and he will outride the devil
People meet but the hills or the mountains do not meet.
Praise youth and it will come
Self praise is no recommendation
Smooth waters sun deep
Tell me your company and I will tell you who you are
Too late to spare when all is spent
The more hurry the less speed
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
- Collector
- Margaret Mary Gilligan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Fenagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Drumdillure, Co. Leitrim
