School: Port Ruadh, Aonach Úrmhumhan (roll number 11367)
- Location:
- Portroe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: S.C. Ó Freathaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 049
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- (continued from previous page)"A watched pot never boils"
"From this to Tib's Eve"
"There are none so blind as those who do not want to see"
"You cannot be in Nenagh and Tyone at the same time".
"Meat would look good on an iron gate"
"There are good goods in small parcels"
"What can you expect from a pig but a grunt"
"A shut mouth catches no flies"
"We hear the wind"
"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world"
"Empty barrels make most sound"
"All hair and wind like a barbers cat".
"There is no use in locking the stable when the horse is gone"
"Like a tailors timble with no bottom"
"Any port in a storm except Portroe"
"A straw shows how the wind blows"
"Tis all over like the fair of Portroe".(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christine Murnane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Portroe, Co. Tipperary
