School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 355
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- (continued from previous page)Do not crow until you are out of the wood.
Collected by: - Eamonn Ó Nialláin, Roughan
Told by: - Edward Neylon ,Roughan (his father)
- A whistling girl and a crowing hen there is never luck in the house they are in.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Is fearr rith maith ná droch-sheasamh.
Much wants more.
Collected by:- Áine Nic Mhathúna, Ballycashen,
Told by: - Pat Mc Mahon, Ballcashen, (her father) - Better late than never
Time enough lost Mass.
Collected by: - Tomás Hawes, Roughan.
Told by: - John Hawes, Roughan (his father) - You cannot hold water in a strainer.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
He who laughs last, laughs best.
Too far east is west.
Dont ever put a job on the long finger.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mícheál Ó Nialláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coad, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Anthony Neylon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Coad, Co. Clare
