School: Baile an Bhile (B.) (roll number 12195)
- Location:
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John F. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 088
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- Old Sayings
The following are a list of old sayings that the people had long ago -
"A wet and windy May fills the barn with oats and hay."
"A year of sloes is a sorrowful year, a year of haws is a good year."
"An excuse is nearer to a woman than her apron."
"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
"Nature is stronger than training."
"There is no feast until a roast and no trouble till marriage."
"The thing that is got easily is spent easily."
"When the wine is in the sense is out."
"A borrowed horse has hard hooves."
"When a person is up his health is drunk, when a person is down he is trampled upon."
"Cows from over the sea have long horns."
"What the ear will not hear will not trouble."
"Praise youth and it will come."
"Man proposes but God disposes."
"God made the back for the burden."
Information from:- Anthony Smyth, Ballinvilla, Brickens, Claremorris(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Anthony Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
