School: Raheenagh (B.), Ráthluirc (roll number 10814)
- Location:
- Raheenagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Gríobhtha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 056
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- 1. Too many cooks spoil the broth
2. Better late than never
3. A stitch in time saves nine
4. Nature breaks out through the eyes of a cat.
5. Health is better than wealth.
6. Many hands make light work
7. Time are tides waits for nobody
8. Procrastination is a lazy mans work
9. Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today.
10. Never say die until you are dead.
11. A bird in the hand is worth too in the bush.sow
12. While the cat is out the mouse is dancing
13. He comes without asking like the bad weather.
14. If you don't sow in the spring you won't reap in the Autumn
15. Where the women are there is talk.
16. He would drink the shannon.
17. A tinkers wife and a sailors wife are two the never agreed
18.A good laugh and a good sleep are the two best cures in the doctors book.
19. Marry a mountain woman and you marry the mountain
20.A persons mouth often broke his nose.
21. It is easier to fall than to rise.
22. God is nearer than the door.
23. Nature is stronger than training.
24. The person who talks most works least.
25. The biggest that every was someone came safe out of it.
26. The world wouldn't make a race horse of an ass.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheal Kelleher
- Gender
- Male
