School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 219
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- 1. An old cat never burns himself.
2. No wind blows but does good for someone.
3. A stone a day would build a tower.
4. Time or Tide waits for no man; but man must wait for time and tide.
5. The windy day is not the day for thatching.
6. Smooth water runs deep.
7. The proof of the pudding is in eating it
8. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
9. A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
10. Have it yourself or do without it.
11. He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
12. What can you expect from a pig but a grunt.
13. The dúthchas breaks out in the eyes of the cat
14. Every dog barks at his own door.
15. God helps those who help themselves.
16. A wet and windy May fills the barns with corn and hay.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr J. Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
