School: Derryvoney

Location:: Derryvony, Co. Cavan
Teacher:: Mary Ní Néill

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Old Proverbs (continued)

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33 What is beauty to comfort.
34. A shut mouth makes a wise head.
35. Worse luck the better again.
36. If the cap does not fit dont wear it.

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Old Cures

In ancient Ireland the people had no doctors, and were obliged to cure themselves. They had many different cures in those days compared to ours nowadays.
When the people had a cough they went to a man who had the cure he brought them to three different fields one where he got tall green flowers

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