School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)for consumption.
The old people say that if you boiled three meals of nettles and ate them in Spring that they would keep any bad sickness for the year.
The dock-root is another very bad harmful weed. It spreads and it eats up the nourishment of the ground.
- "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
"No fireside is as good as your own fireside."
"He who plants trees loves others besides himself."
"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
"Make hay while the sun shines."
"Listen to the noise of the river and you'll get fish."
"Have it yourself or be without it."One day a man was going into Carrick for goods and he said to himself "Spend and God will send." When he went into Carrick he went into a public house and bought beer for the money. When he was coming home he heard a blackbird singing in the ditch "Have it yourself or be without it." - Collector
- Kitty Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
