School: Ceathrú an Chalaidh
- Location:
- Carraholly, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Brian Mac Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 363
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- (continued from previous page)You would not hit a turf stack
As fly as a jailer.
As lively as a bee.
As thick as a leather bag.
A tin-man often made saucepans.
Many a mans tongue broke his nose.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
You might as well be throwing stones at the moon.
What you don't hear won't trouble you.
If it was the first one it would choke you.
Don't sell your hen on a rainy day.
Putting a nail in your own coffin.
You will be late for your own funeral.
If you play with a dog in the barn he'll follow you to the kitchen.
What is bred in the bone will come out in the marrow.
It is as bad to be burned as scalded.
Like a hen having an egg to lay(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Ní Cheallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Mairtín Ó Riagáin
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Prionsias Ní Mhóráin
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Tomas de Stonduin
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Tomás Mac Giobúin
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Treasa Ingham
- Gender
- Female
