School: Tighmhanach (roll number 15715)
- Location:
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs E. Jordan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 342
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- (continued from previous page)"What you never got you never lost"
"Every old shoe finds a comrade"
"Ill got, ill gone"
"Don't count your chickens before they are all hatched"
"One good turn deserves another"
"If you want to know me come and live with me"
"A friend in need is a friend indeed"
"A half loaf is better than no bread"
"While money stands luck turns"
"It's no good throwing water on a drowned rat"
"First come first served"
"You will never know the want of water until the well goes dry"
"Bad wind doe not favour someone"
"Two heads are is better than one"
"Don't jump"
"It is an ill wind that blows nobody good"
"Thatching ale houses and stripping your own , and when your money is all gone, they will bid you go home."
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old one takes the corners. I got those proverbs from Mrs Mullany Tivanagh Boyle age over 80 yrs. Jerard Jordan.
- Collector
- Jerard Jordan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Mullany
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
