School: Carlingford (B.)
- Location:
- Carlingford, Co. Louth
- Teacher: C. Ó Blunaigh
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- Contributed by Patk. Boyle, Chapel Hill.
1. Too many cook spoil the broth.
2. The truth never chokes anyone.
3. Blood is thicker than water.
4. It takes two to make a quarrel.
5. Save the rod and spoil the child.
6. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Contributed by Gerald McGrath, Castle Hill.
1. Home, Sweet Home and the fire out.
2. It is hard to get a good hook for a bad harvest man.
3. A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
4. It is often a person's mouth broke his nose.
5. People meet but the hills and fields don't meet.
6. Get up out of bed, the man of the house. I am asleep and don't waken me. - Contributed by Joseph McCrum, Sth. Commons.
1. The much travelled talk little.
2. Cows far off wear long horns.
3. Four things an Irishman can't trust: A cow's horn - A horse's hoof - a Dog's snarl and an Englishman's laugh.
4. Truth will never hang a person. - Informant
- Patrick Boyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castle Hill, Co. Louth
