School: Coill Sailighe (roll number 4855)
- Location:
- Kilsallagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Ghiobáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 251
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- (continued from previous page)the words and every mother has that one.
The new broom sweeps clean.
The dog always follows his master.
You cannot knock blood out of a turnip.
Shake hands and be friends law is expensive.
The hills are green far away.
- It opens like a barn door it shuts like a trap and its many a thing you will think of before you thing of that. An umbrella.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the kings horses could not pull it up
A Spring Well.
Little little little smaller than a mouse yet it has more windows than in a kings house. A thimble.
As I looked out my window I saw the dead carrying the living. A - Collector
- Mr Gannon
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