School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Liostuathail (roll number 4062)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Bríd Nic Oscair An tSr. Íde An tSr. Muire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 373
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- (continued from previous page)to the well in the next field. She went out and found a well in the field where there never was a well before.
It is said that when the priest went out, he stamped his foot on the ground and immediately a well was formed there, it being there to the present day. The well is small scarcely the size of a basin. The water is pure and extremely cold even on the warmest day and never has been known to run dry.
- Beware of the snail of a dog, the heels of a horse and the smile of a Sassenach.It is impossible to take wool off a goat.Never scald your lips with another man's porridge.A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are always badly shod.(continues on next page)
