School: Tobar Colmáin, Ráthluirc (roll number 8930)
- Location:
- Saint Colman's Well, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bean Uí Aoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 422
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- A bird in the hand is worth two on a bush.
Once bitten twice shy.
The burned child dreads the fire.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
All is not gold that glitters.
There is hope from the ocean but none from the grave.
One swallow never made a Summer.
He would live where the birds would die. This saying is applied locally to anybody who is reputed to be very mean or miserly.
When some of the older people in this district meet a newly married man or woman of the neighbourhood they sometimes say "What about my four pence". The tradition at the back of that saying is that if newly married people do not give away something they will be unlucky.
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.(continues on next page)
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