School: St. Michael's Clooncunny (roll number 14589)
- Location:
- Clooncunny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Stondúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 093
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- (continued from previous page)means sorrow
A stray dog coming in means an unexpected visitor.
It is considered unlucky in this district for two people of the one family to get married within the same year.
It is considered unlucky to wear green as the old people say "Green for sorrow
Black for the Morrow"
Heard from different people in the area- particularly from P Casey aged 85 Clooncunny, Ballaghaderin.
- Proverbs (Commonly Heard).
Easy got easy gone
An angel abroad + a devil at home
It's easier to fall than rise.
Don't break you laidricin or stool that isn't in your way.
Never's as good fish in the lake as were ever caught.
A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.
He'll be better before he's married
"Mad for earning like Jack Flynn's horse" - the horse when ready for work went off + left his master to follow on foot _
