School: Loch Rois (roll number 1751)
- Location:
- Loughros, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Stiofán Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0198, Page 082
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- A half burned turf is easily kindled.
There is danger in delay.
A stitch in time saves mine.
Everything to help the lame dog over the ditch.
It is a long road in which there is no turn.
Fields look green far away.
Half loaf is better than no bread.
It is as hard as the Rock of Cashel.
It is as sound as the bells of Armagh.
I can't whistle and chew meal.
It's as dead as a door nail.
You did it as the cow killed the hare. "By chance."
Two heads are wiser than one.
No matter how near a man's coat is to him his shirt is nearer.
He could build nests in your with calmness.
A bird in a hand is worth two in the bush.
He could watch rats at a cross roads.
Paper won't refuse ink.
A hard gathering get a merry scattering
He is as quiet as a fox(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Larry Mawn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Glenfarne, Co. Leitrim
