School: Clover Hill (roll number 13262)
- Location:
- Lissagallan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoilealaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 319
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- (continued from previous page)8. "You can bring the horse to the pond but you can't make him drink."
9. "Many hands make light work."
10. "Kind words cost nothing."
11. "Look before you leap."
12. "Don't count your chickens until they are hatched."
13. "Don't send a boy on a man message."
14. "All bad work men fault their tools."
15. "God never closes a gap but he opens another."
16. "Silence gives consent."
17. "A bad dog that is not worth whistling for."
18. "A shut mouth catches no flies."
Olive Raftery,
Cloverhill N.S.
Roscommon.
Information received from:-
Miss C. Fallon (age 24)
Lissagallon,
Roscommon
- 1. "Leave by a little for a rainy day".
2. "Always taking from the tub and never putting in soon comes to an end".
3. "Those who give all gives none at all".
4."God's mills grind slow but sure".
5. "Gods help is nearer than the door".(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nellie Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Tom Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Lissagallan, Co. Roscommon
