School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid

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- (continued from previous page)Somebody comes after the sower and closes the holes.
The people around Oughterard go around to help each other when sowing the potatoes. They are moulded after about three weeks and then sprayed. - It's an old saying and a true one that a new broom sweeps clean.
When there' a will there's a way"Ní h-é lá na gaoithe, lá na sgolb"A watched pot never boils
There is many a day in twenty one yearsThere was a tailor sewing one time and he had no candlestick for the candle, so he stuck it to the wall and said - "It's hard to beat the art of man."Another old saying that "half a loaf is better than no bread
The proverb says that in the end the best of friends must partAnother old saying is that friends meet but hills do not.
The hills are green far away
When all fruit fails welcome haws
As crooked as a ram's horn
Too many cooks spoil the broth(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Fahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway