School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)
- Location:
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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- (continued from previous page)15/ A good beginning is half the work.
16/ A barking dog doesn't bite.
17/ Better to wear out shoes than sheets.
18/ Better is an ass that carries you, than a horse that throws you.
19/ Bend the twig, and bend the tree.
20/ Be old when young, that you may be young when old.
21. Bacherors' wives and maidens' children are well trained.
22/ Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry.
23/ Between two stools we come to the groun.
24/ Beg from a beggar, and you'll never be rich
25/ Children and fools should not handle edge tools.
26/ Cleave a log according to the grain.
27/ Curiosity kills the cat.
28/ Clean dirt is no poison.
29/ Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
30/ Do not ride a free horse to death.
31/ Don't count your chickens until they are(continues on next page)- Collector
- Norah Meer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Meer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bofield, Co. Mayo