School: An Gort Mór (roll number 8984)
- Location:
- Gortmore North, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Máire Nic Cárrain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 029
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- (continued from previous page)An empty cart makes most noise.
A watched pot never boiles.
A bird in the hand is worth too in the bush
Live horse and you will get grass.
Far away cows have long horns.
It is a long lane that has not a turn.
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
Borrowed horses have hard hoves.
- Many feasts are observed in the district at the present time. Om St. Stephen's day all the young boys and sometimes the grown - ups gather together in processions and go from house singing the wren song. Some of them have mouth organs, tin-whistles, flutes and others of them have flags. They get women's clothes and they dress them-selves in different colours. They have paper hats. They shoot the wren and they put it on two posts. They are carried by two men. They go around and any of them who can sing, sing the wren song and others play on their musical instruments. There is a person(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Áine Ní Gormáin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Mullaglassan, Co. Monaghan
