School: Nobber (C.) (roll number 5807)
- Location:
- Nobber, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chaoindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0710, Page 293
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- (continued from previous page)After a gatherer comes a scattererA hard gathering gets a quick scatteringRáinín - a very small personwearing a snout a yard long - with displeasureCrabaireGribrisGob on youWhen you get an inch you take a square yard
When you get an inch you take a bandle (bannlámh) (?)
Gribby - applied to a person who has lost his front teeth
As thick as a double dith - one who is easily vexedAs happy as the corpse that rain falls onBunk - a bed
Leave your head where you will get it in the morning
Did you sleep in your hair - said to an early riser
When it is misty in the morning people say
"It is misty wet for dry"
A Scutty wran (wren)
If you ask a person on a dark night where he was going he would answer:-"I am going to the dark wood for a cart load of daylight"
You are like a thing the cat brought in of a wet night
