School: Shanakill, Roscrea
- Location:
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Proverb = There is no hearth like your own hearth.
- Proverb = "Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday is best day of all." "Thursday for losses, Friday for Crosses, Saturday is no day at all."
Proverb = When you are going to bed on a Saturday night, you should always leave the house clean and tidy and never leave a pan of water in after washing your feet, for it is said that the good people comes when we are in bed and they like to see the house clean and tidy. - Proverb = "Wilful waste makes woeful want."
Lesson = If a person threw away bread he might be glad of it before the end of his life.
Proverb = "Don't spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar."
Proverb= " You can't break an old horse off his gallop."
Proverb = "A place for everything and everything in its place."
Proverb ="Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land." - Collector
- Daniel Quinlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Quinlan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
