School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)
- Location:
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0043, Page 0100
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- (continued from previous page)Everyone draws water to his own mill.
Don't sell your hen on a wet day.
Don't send a boy in a man's place.
Hills are green far away.
Show me your companions and I'll tell you what you are.
Have it yourself or do it without it.
Believe nothing you hear and what you see. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.
Many hands make light work.
What would a cat's son do but kill a mouse.
One ant finds another.
What the monkey writes he reads.
Don't forsake a good friend to get a little for yourself.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Do not buy a pig in a bag.
Rome was not built in a day." If Saint Swithin's Day it then doth rain for forty days it will remain. Saint Swithin's Day if it be fay. It will rain in May. Candlemas Day put candle away.
St. Patrick's Day put candle and candlestick away.
- Collector
- James Miskell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Miskell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doon Lower, Co. Galway
