School: Cros Riabhach
- Location:
- Crossreagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Siordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 357
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- You do not belie your name (A Cross Man) "Crossreagh"
1) It is better wear out then rust out
2) My own spurs and your horse.
3) A borrowed horse wants ahrd shoes.
4) Round the road and home by Farrelly's
5) The turn is ni the road.
6) It's a long road has no turn.
7) The longest way round is the shortest way home.
8) Live horse and you will get grass but the horse died while the grass was growing.
9) There is no help for spilt milk only let the cat drink it.
10) a) In far fields, cows have long horns.
b) His bread is baked ( meaning he is going to die)
11) You can't teach a swallow how to fly.
12) You need not bring turf to the bog.
13) What did he say? What the dead man said going through Nobber.
(Nobber is seven miles from here)
14) a) There is no hearth like your own hearth
b) "I hear the bees" (said t0 express in creduility)
15) Like leanbh [?] chree's dog: a bit of the way with every one.
16) I am as still as if I had meal to sell.
- Collector
- Pat Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corfad, Co. Cavan
