School: Wolfhill (roll number 3457)
- Location:
- Wolfhill, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Dubhlainn
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- "The longest way round is the shortest way home"
This proverb can be applied to a person taking a short - cut home through the fields on a dark night.
"A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard".
"Wet and windy May fills the barn with corn and hay"
If the month of May is wet and stormy the harvest will be good and fruitful
"Every dog barks at his own door".
This proverb means that every person will fight when he has somebody to back him up.- Collector
- Ita Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slatt Lower, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Bridget Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughatubbrid or Chatsworth, Co. Kilkenny