School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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Proverbs
Half a loaf is better than no bread
A stitch in time saves nine.
Never count your chickens until they are hatched.
As busy as a hen at a bag of oats.
As busy as a liar in company.
Willful waste makes woeful want.
It is too late to lock the stable-door when the steed is stolen.
Keep your shop and your shop will keep you.
Half a leap i a fall into a ditch.
A time for every thing and every thing in its proper time.
Never take the book by the cover.
It is too late to spare when all is spent.
Written by Gertie Cullen Lower Rover
Obtained from: Mrs Cullen Lower Rover
- Collector
- Gertie Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rover Lower, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rover Lower, Co. Roscommon
