School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 404
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- (continued from previous page)You can't carry water in a [riddle?].
As long as a hound's tooth (a stitch).
A drowning man catches at a straw.
No gains without pains (care).
A good word never choked anyone.
- Every day washing, ne'er a day clean.
Every fool laughs at his own folly.
(Used in a ring game - "or tig" - whoever got 'jolly' had the tig).' Your head up, like a thieving cow."
Spadach won't last.
The more haste, the less speed.
As deaf as a beetle.
As contrary as a weasel.
It's a bad bird, that fouls its own nest.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
