School: Kilavoggy (roll number 2178)
- Location:
- Killavoggy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 021
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- (continued from previous page)24 On ounce of truth is worth a pound of fiction
25 There's no rose without a thorn
26. Angels visits are few and far between
27. Drunkkers make uncomfortable homes
28. A badworkman quarrels with his tools
29. The child is father to the man
30. Those in glass houses should not throw stones
31. Raw haste is half sister to delay
33 Think twice before you speak once
34 Courage is half the battle
35 Well begun is half done
36 All is well that ends well
37 When it rains it pours
38 Many hands make light work
39 Wise men build houses and fools live in them
40. Find and tide wait for no man
41. Never send coals to New Castle
42 History repeats it self
43 All is fair in love and war
44 Children of to-day are men of to-morrow
45. Do not lose the ship for a Half porth (ha’p’orth) of tar
- Collector
- Mary Teresa Harrison
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Tullycoly, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Kelly
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Cloonbannive, Co. Leitrim
