School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- (continued from previous page)Collected by: - Seosamh Mac Giolla Coisgle. Coad.
Told by: - John Costello, Coad (his father)
(58 years)
- Blood is thicker than water.
Don’t count your chickens until they ˆhatched.
Ná cuir do ghnó ar do mhéar fhada.
You cannot knock blood out of a turnip.
Collected by Máire Ní Choileáin Dromoher
Told by Patrick Linnane, Dromoher
(75 years) - Collector
- Máire Ní Choileáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drummoher, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Patrick Linnane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Drummoher, Co. Clare
- Put a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil.
Briseann an dúthchas trí shúilibh an chait.
Do not put your work on the long finger.
A shut fist catches no hawk.
Collected by: - Nóra Ni Chasadaigh, Ballycashen
Told by: - Mrs Cassidy , Ballycashen (her mother)
(48 years) - Bean táilúra is bean tinncéira sin beirt ban ná réidhtigheann le chéile. Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí.
What can you expect from a pig but a grunt.
Beg from a beggar and you’ll never get rich.(continues on next page)
