School: Cnoc na gCóirne
- Location:
- Knocknagornagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Coinnigh
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- Necessity compels an old woman to trot.
- A rogue can never carry his legs.
- Informant
- Patrick Sheahan
- Gender
- Male
- The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the puddle. Represents a variation of the pup for the path.
- Nature overcomes nurture.
- After a gatherer comes a scatterer.
- Proverbs peculiar to district.
No one for the army but a soldier.
Patrick Collins. - Proverbs peculiar to district.
Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall, but soft upon soft makes none at all.
Maura Woulfe. - You haven't eaten a pack of salt with me.If you want to know me ---------
