School: Cill Crócháin (roll number 15410)
- Location:
- Cill Chrócháin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Murthuile
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0286, Page 117
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- (1) You can't fit a square peg in a round hole.
(2) The more muck the more luck.
(3) Cuckoo oats and woodcock hay
Sent the farmer far away.
(4) A stitch in time saves nine.
(5) The bad tradesman always quarrels with his tools.
(6) The new broom sweeps clean but the old one finds the holes and corners
(7) Merry come sorry.
(8) Time and tide waits for no man.
(9) Marry in haste but repent in lisure.
(10) Look before you leap.
(11) Think twice before you speak once.
(12) A place for everything, and everything in its own place.
(13) Fine feathers make fine birds
(14) Make hay while the sun shines.
(15) The longest day will pass away
And the sun will shine to-morrow.
(16) Evening red and morning grey,
Sets the traveller on his way.
Evening grey and morning red,
Pours down rain on the traveller's head.
(17) Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
(18) Health is better than wealth.
(19) Better late than never.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
