School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0120
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- (continued from previous page)in favour of somebody."
4. "Let the last day be the hardest day."
5. "Friends meet but hills don't."
6. "Its a cure for sore eyes to see you."
7. "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
8. "Its far off what God sends."
9. "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
10. "A stitch in time saves nine."
11. "Green hills are far away"
12. "Every new broom sweeps clean but the old one would scratch better."
13. "Fools build high houses for wise men to live in."
14. "It's a long lane that has no turning."
15. "Plough deep while the sluggards sleeps"
16. "A shut mouth catches no flies."
Collected by Anna M. Rabbitt from Mrs. Margaret Guerin Kylebrack age 56
- Horses.
When a mare would have seven filly foals in the same field the four-leafed shamrock would grow in it. It is very lucky to get a horse-shoes or nail belonging to a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Anna M. Rabbitte
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Guerin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Kylebrack, Co. Galway
