School: Toomore (roll number 16401)

Location:
Toomore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tomás Breathnach
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  1. 1. If you don't sow in the spring you won't reap in the harvest.
    2. Look ere you leap.
    3. Think twice before you speak once.
    4. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
    5. The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
    6. It is said that if a sod of turf falls after putting a fire down that somebody will come in.
    7. You will be lucky throughout the year if the first teem of horses you seen is coming towards you.
    8. If you see a magpie you will have bad luck and if you see two you will get a letter.
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