School: Taplach (roll number 5114)
- Location:
- Taplagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Dubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0931, Page 314
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- (continued from previous page)years ago the farmers from as far off as Ballybay used to travel frequently to shop in Newry. I myself (F. O Duffy Teacher in Broomfield) know a man who used to walk four times a year to Newry with a barrow-ful of agriculture produce and on one occasion heh wheeled home a two cwt. bag of Indian meal in the barrow - from Newry to the Two-Lough district near Ballybay - a distance of about thirty-two statute miles.
The cat lives on sweet milk and on scraps of fish, meat and bacon.
The dog lives on bones, buttermilk, or sweet milk and potatoes mixed, and eats all sorts of dinner scraps.
- Plough deep, while sluggards sleep
And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.When a man attempts to do too much it is often said that,-
"he will find his backside his jump.""Never forsake the old for the new.""A pig's ear can never make mutton."(continues on next page)
