School: Eanach Dubh (C.) (roll number 13657)
- Location:
- Annaduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Mary Shanley
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- (continued from previous page)in a shop. The local people do help one another in sewing the potatoes.The first thing the farmer does with the ground is he ploughs it, then he manures it and then he heart fills it. Now he sows the potatoes. People help one another when they are getting ready the ground for the potatoes.The people of the house pick the potatoes. They are put in a heap and covered with rushes. The local potatoes are Arran Bonnets, Kerr Pinks, Arran Pilot and Arran Kairn. Potatoes are used for dinner and for feeding hens.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
It is not on one foot that St. Patrick came to Ireland.
Every hound is a pup until it hunts.
It is not the big stones alone that build the castles.
When a man breaks his promise we say that's the hen's journey to Scotland.
Friends are plenty whilst the purse is full.(continues on next page)
