School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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- 1. Charity covers a multitude of sins.
2. Rome was not built in a day.
3. There is no use crying over spilt milk.
4. When wine is in wit is out.
5. Out of debt out of danger.
6. Out of sight out of mind.
7. Those that have a glass house should never throw stones.
8. Sly water runs deeps.
9. A bird in the hand is worth two i the bush.
10. Patience is avirtues.
11. Time and tide wait for no man.
12. He that sat on a thistle will surley rise.
13. One swallow never made a Summer.
14. Busy as a liar in company.
15. Every hound is a pup till it hunts.
16. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
17. Don't eat wheat as grass.
18. He that had pity on the poor(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Morton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- J. W. Morton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
