School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)

Location:
Cashel, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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  1. 1. Show me your company and I will tell you what you are.
    2. Birds of feather flock together.
    3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    4. Throw a trout to catch a salmon.
    5. It is an ill wind that blows no man good.
    6. There is no one as blind as the man that won't see.
    7. Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne he travels the faster who travels alone.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Mescal
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cashel, Co. Tipperary
  2. There are three graveyards in my parish:- Ardmoyle, Ballysheehan and Littlechurch. They are all used yet and they are square in shape. There is a church in each of them
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