School: Wolfhill (roll number 3457)
- Location:
- Wolfhill, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Dubhlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 321
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- "An hour on the road is worth two hours in the stable" This means that a horse will do more work in one hour on the road, than in two hour in the stable.
- Collector
- Ita Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slatt Lower, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Bridget O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slatt Lower, Co. Laois
- "It is too late to shut the stable door when the horse is stolen"
"You cannot have the wind before and behind you"
"Birds of a feather flock together"
