School: Ballyhahill (C.) (roll number 10686)

Location:
Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
H. Fitzgerald
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    24. You cannot get a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
    25. When the cat is out the mouse is dancing.
    26. After a storm there comes a calm.
    28. The man on the fence is the best hurler.
    29. Green are the distant hills.
    30. He could put timber legs under hens.
    31. It is a long lane that has no winding.
    32. A new house is never built on an old pathway.
    33. When this hard on an old hag she has to run.... meaning necessity is the mother of invention
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  2. Festival Customs
    1. On Stephen's Day, 26th Dec, young men and children dressed up in funny attire, go around the country, from house to house collecting money. They have a violin or two with them, or may be a melodian, and a couple of mouth-organs. They dance, or else sing a song in each house, On an appointed night a fortnight or so later, a party is given in some country house, out of the money collected - children generally divide their money amongst them.
    2. Eligible young men who let Shrove go by, without getting married, are rewarded by a plentiful supply of chalk marks
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Danaher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knocknabooly West, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Robert Danaher
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Knocknabooly West, Co. Limerick