School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 355
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- You are not worth a trainin,
A bird in the hand is worth two on a bush.
Seldom seen is much admired.
You may live long and die happy,
As big a Balla and half Manula.
You are as untidy as the rope woman. (The rope woman was an old woman who sold ropes. Her clothes were all torn.)
Patience is a virtue have it if you can it's always in a woman and its never in a man.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
You are as lazy as sin.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Six of one and half a dozen of another.
They pluck the geese twice a year in Co. Clare. (It means they are stingy)
All to one side like the town of Loughglynn.
County Mayo - God help us - County Galway - glad to get us.
The hair of the dog that bit you. (When a man is in the DT they do not deprive him of drink but they give him a drop now and again.)
Spreading on the face of the earth. (getting fat)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Clogher Beg, Co. Mayo
