School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 132
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- 1. He is a good hurler who sits on the fence.
2. It is hard to put wise head on young shoulders.
3. Better late than never.
4. God is nearer than the door.
5. The person who talks most works least.
6. He would drink Lough Erin dry.
7. Closing the door after the robbery.
8. You can't take out what is not put in.
9. Talk doesn't fill the stomach.
10. Leave that as it is and Dublin where it is often said at the end of and argument when is no chance of agreement.
11. A sloe year is a low year, a haw year is a haw year.
12. Time or Tide will wait for no man.
- Collector
- Peadar Mc Geough
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corbollis, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Paddy Hoey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
