School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 078
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- (continued from previous page)feet touched the ground. About the end of the first decade of the present century, the clergy of the catholic church condemned this practice, and announced that they would refuse to officiate at any burial when it was observed. The practice was then discontinued.
- Quaint Sayings
1) You never miss the water until the well runs dry.
2) Never force your friendship on cold fidelity.
3) Do not waste your sweets on the desert air.
4) Them that will carry a story to you, will carry ne away from you.
5) When the Wine's in the Wires out.
6) "I don't care" was Hawk's ruin.
7) Do spoil the sheep for the 'ha' porch of tar.
8) Drunk, drunk at night and dry, dry in the morning; The landlady cried "There's a well in the gardens".
9)Them that would nim down my horse would buy my horse.
10) When a young lad and lassie are having quarrels it is a sure sign that there is love between them.
11) A whistling woman and a crowing hen are very unlucky.
12). A pig in a poke looks nothing.
13) Some people would kiss you, and cut your throat out at the same time.
14) So and So in "a street angel and a house devil."
15) You can't expect anything from the pig but the grunt.(continues on next page) - Collector
- S. Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Phil Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Journalist
- Address
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
