School: Bredagh Glen (roll number 14635)
- Location:
- Bredagh Glen, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Catháin
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- Twelve and twelve are twenty four shut your mouth and say no more
I havn't a screed on me
"I am asleep and don't waken me"
"It is many a skin that youth casts
"What is the matter with you? I am perished with the cold, parched with the thirst, and famished with the hunger"
"Be afraid and there is no danger"
"I was afraid of the journey"
"The truth is often bitter"
"The truth never choked a man"
"Your pocket is your friend"
"The person is the clothes"
"One penny makes another'
"The help of God is nearer than the door"
"The cold does not come to the Spring"
"The person is the clothes"
"A thing worth doing is worth doing well"
"A new brush sweeps clean"(continues on next page)- Collector
- Éamonn Ó Catháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal