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1. Stories of Watergrasshill and District from Old Inhabitants - Some Old Sayings with Local Reference

   

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   (a) When some article, which you need for which you have asked the loan from a person, is not forthcoming you say:
   "Maybe you have it at home, where Tom Bhríghdín had the rope."
   A farmer was going to market one day with pigs in a crib, and at the foot of Corrin Hill, some part of the harness of his horse snapped, and as he couldn't mend it he could go no further till help would come. The next person to come along was Tom Bhríghdín (Tom Ahern) also going to town, and he was hailed by the farmer in difficulties, who asked Tom, if he chanced to have a piece of rope, that he could lend as the harness got broken. Tom was a very slow easy-going individual and his answer was: "No then, but I have a very nice handy bit at home." As his home was some eight miles distant, his rope wasn't of much help to the other.

   (b) When a person is in difficulties of any sort people say by way of consolation:
   "He'll get over that like the moon got over Corrin."

   (c) "Upper Skehana, go bhfoiridh Dia orrainn"
   Upper Skehana is a townland N.E. of Watergrasshill rather poor land so that farmers there were never very wealthy. A collection was made at one time for

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mrs Hayes

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   46

   Occupation

   Assistant teacher

   Address

   Watergrasshill, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Thomas Manning

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   79