School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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- OLD PROVERBS1. Marry a mountain woman any you marry the mountain.
2. Learning makes a man proud. Wisdom makes him humble.
3. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
4. Better late than never.
5. A little wife well willed, a little house well filled.
6. When poverty comes in on the door, loves flies out through the window.
7. Honesty is the best policy
8. A liar wants good memory.
9. Beauty is only skin deep.
10. Keep your shop will keep you.
11. Keep a tight grip on your homestead.
12. Property has its duties as well as its rights.
13. It is far off what God sends.
14. Between two stools you come to the ground.
15. Don’t swap horses crossing a stream.
16. You might as well be going to the goats house to look for wool.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Treacy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- B. Fitzpatrick
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
