School: Liostuathail (B.) 1.
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Haodha
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- (continued from previous page)head on young shoulders
If you go aborrowing you go asorrowingAfter a gatherer comes a scattererOurs seems heavy while others seem lightA green Christmas make a fat churchyard
Once upon a time a tyrant landlord named Day lived in Tralee. he used never go out without his dogs for fear the tenants would attack him Day's dogs were known all over Kerry. The following proverb was made from that story,
"Every day his dog and every dog his day
Every magpie thinks his own gearrcach the whitest
Éamonn Ó Catháin
Church St
Listowel
- Collector
- Éamonn Ó Catháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
