School: Loch Rois (roll number 1751)
- Location:
- Loughros, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Stiofán Ó Braonáin
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- 1.Set a thief to catch a thief
2. A good beginning is half the work.
3.The lazy man's load.
4. It is a long road that has no turning.
5. Cows from over the sea have long horns.
6. Hunger is a good sauce.
7. He could fill a wheelbarrow with smoke.
8. Its as sound as a bell.
9. I can't whistle and chew meal.
10. Good fences make good neighbours
It is as dead as a door nail.
11. The long thread of the lazy tailors.
12. The place where women are there is talk.
13. Two bad heads would make one good head.
14. You might as well be trying to find trouts' nests in the trees.
15. It is hard to find a need in straw.
16. The strange dogs can walk out through the eyes of needles
17. As wild as Jimmy Willey and the mule
18. Throwing fish into the river(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jack Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Glenfarne, Co. Leitrim