School: Ráth Dairbhe (roll number 10001)
- Location:
- Radeerpark, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Henry Mc Kenna
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- Proverbs."A glutton lives to eat, and a wise man eats to live"."A heavy heart seldom combs a grey head"."Here's an ould devil's clips and if he gets his tongue at us we'll carry blisters for a week to come"."A willful man must have his way"."Death takes the young as well as the old"."A man might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion"."A closed mouth is the sign of a wise head"."You have more brains than the pillar of a gate"."Blood is thicker than water"."Everyone knows that there's never smoke(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Skeachorn, Co. Monaghan