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School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)

Location:
Menlough, Co. Galway
Teachers:
Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
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    (1) A stitch in time saves nine stitches.
    (2) Look before you leap.
    (3) Do not let your mind by the ditch until you look the other side of it.
    (4) Get what you get honestly and use it thrifty.
    (5) Command you may but do not spend too much time at play.
    (6) It's a long lane that has not an end.
    (7) The windy day is not the day for the scolaps.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Tim Ruane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Ballagh, Co. Galway