School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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- (continued from previous page)24. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
25. A watch pot never boils.
26. The higher the house the nearer the fall.
27. When you are up you are up and when your down your down and when your neither up nor your neither down nor up.
28. Praise youth and it will come.
- Mr Stone Garnett, the - land lord in Williamstown, Dulane, had two very strong men among his workmen.
Whenever he was arranging work for them he used to say:- "Ambrose Quinn
Three Min"
Joe McCullagh
A man and-a-half.
Quinn lived in stirabout and in the end died suddenly. He could carry a barrel of wheat five miles and two barrels of spuds three miles.
He was very tall and he was crooked. He(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bertha Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
