School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 350

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 350

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    When the blossoms are on the stalks they are sprayed. They are dug when the blossoms fall off.

    When the potatoes are dug they are put into a pit in the garden. The pit is covered with ferns or rushes, and hen earth is put on the ferns. If they are allowed to remain in the garden during the Winter months, they are secured with rushes against the cold rains of Winter.

    Collected by: - Máire Ní Choisgle, Coad.
    Told by: - John Costello, Coad, (her father)
    (58 years)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Sean-fhocail
    Don’t throw out the dirty water until the clean water comes in.
    Many a person cut a rod to beat himself.
    The fox never got a better messenger than himself.
    What a child sees he does.
    A learned man understands half a word.
    Do not take the book by the cover.
    A word in the court is better than a pound in the purse.
    You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
    Live horse and you will get grass.
    God’s mills grind slowly.
    You can fool some of the world all of the time, and all
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Chearbhaill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clifden, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Mícheál Ó Cearbhaill
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Clifden, Co. Clare