School: Rahan (roll number 9096)
- Location:
- Rahan, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0370, Page 026
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- "By learning to obey we know how to command."
"The door to success is always marked with "push"".
"A windy day is not the day for a scalllop."
"He who is a bad servant to himself is often a good servant to other people."
"A good laugh and a sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's Book."
"Borrowed horses have hard hooves."
"You must venture to win."
"What is not worth asking is not worth getting."
- Collector
- Lena Duggan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rockforest East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Duggan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 44
- Address
- Rockforest East, Co. Cork
- "Strife is better than loneliness."
"A blind man is a bad judge of colours."
"Every beetle knows another of the same kind."
"Beware of the slippery Sams"
"It is difficult to cut wool off a goat."
"There is no luck but where there is correction[?](continues on next page) - Collector
- Bridie White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fiddane North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Patrick White
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Fiddane North, Co. Cork
