School: Graigue, Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4124)
- Location:
- An Ghráig, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Lionacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 079
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- A stitch in time saves nine.
The best hurler is always on the ditch.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Early to bed; early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Far away cows wear long horns.
Hills are green far away.
Where the women are there is talk.
When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window.
Every cat after his kind.
Nature beaks in the eyes of a cat.
You cannot get mutton off a pig.
A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
It is difficult to cut wool off a goat.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A burned child dreads the fire.
You cannot expect blood out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Kelleher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an tSeanchaisleáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr John Sherlock
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Baile an tSeanchaisleáin, Co. Chorcaí
