School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)
- Location:
- Menlough, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 043
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- (1) Use a book as a bee does a flower.
(2) Tell no home secrets outside.
(3) With economy few need be poor.
(4) A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
(5) Out of the mouth of babies comes wisdom.
(6) Old friends are rare - of new ones beware.
(7) Be just and fear not.
(8) Short accounts make long friends.
(9) Work is better than talk.
(10) Work is good and brings rewards.
(11) It is better to be merry than sad.
- Collector
- Terry Dignam
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Dignan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Pollnabrone, Co. Galway
