School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine Bean Uí Chuillin

Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 21_013
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.)
- XML Page 21_013
- XML “Old Sayings”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Old Sayings
A Bird in the hand is wort two in the bush.
Silks and satins often put out the kitchen fire.
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep and you will have corn to sell and to keep.
Work while you call it to day for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow.
Never leave that till tomorrow that which you can do to day
As good to be out of the world as out of the fashion(continues on next page)- Collector
- Margaret Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrycahill, Co. Roscommon