School: Drom Loiste (roll number 5113)
- Location:
- Drumlusty, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maoláin
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- 1/ "Strength" says the Scutty (wren) when he pulled the worm out of the dunghill.
2/ A windy day is not a day for thatching.
3/ A dry March never begs its bread.
4/ April showers brings forth May flowers.
5/ A wet and windy May fills the haggars full of hay.
6/ Never trust a July sky.
7/ Never eat a blackberry after Michaelmas day for the devil spits at them
8/ You can not blow away a November fog with a fan.
9/A cold May makes no one rich.- Collector
- Owen Callan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Hugh Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Dundrockan, Co. Monaghan
- 1/ Its a long road that there is not a turn in.
2. Many hands make light work.
3. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
4. Ireland for a penny but where is the penny.
5. All the months of the year curse the fair February.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Frank Thornton
- Gender
- Male