School: Liostuathail (B.) 1.
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Haodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 115
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- A new broom sweeps the cleanest.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures in the doctor's book.
Putting the box to mind the hens.
The shortest way to the dinner but the longest way to work.
A year of sloes is a sorrowful year, a year of haws is a good year.
A sloe year is a low year but a haw year is a braw year.
If you don't sow in the Spring you won't reap in the Autumn.
The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh.
A person often cuts the rod which will beat himself.
A good beginning is half the work.
He comes without asking like the bad weather.
Cows across the sea have long horns.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tadhg Ua Conchubhair
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
