School: Kilavoggy (roll number 2178)
- Location:
- Killavoggy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 019
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- 1. Rising late one must gallop all
2. Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
3. Never take a book by the cover
4. All that glitters is not gold
5. A friend in need is a friend in deed
6. Too many cooks spoil the broth
7. A stitch in time saves nine
8. One rotten apple rots a bagful
9. Look twice before you leap
10. When the old cock crows the young one learns
11. Three straws on a staff will make a baby cry and laugh
12. Hills are green far away
13. A bird in the hand is worth three in the bush
14 One swallow never make a summer
- Collector
- Catherine Veronica Keaveny
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Corratimore Glebe, Co. Leitrim
