School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)High winds blow on high hills.
Half a leap is a fall into the ditch.
It is good to begin well, but better to end well.
Kindle the dry sticks, and the green ones will catch.
Little dogs start the hair, but great ones catch it.
One years seeding is nine years weeding.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
It is no good throwing water on a dead rat.
If you dont take pains, pains will take you.
He who thinks only of serving himself, is the slave of a slave.
He sups ill who eats all at dinner.
Brigiḋ Ní Aodgaín
Cluanfaod
Dun Gar
- The eye of a friend is a good looking glass
The woman does the talk and the man does the work.
A knave is one knave but a fool is many
As the fool thinketh so the bell clinketh
A wrinkled purse a wrinkled face(continues on next page) - Collector
- Máire Ní Caomhanáigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Parkeel, Co. Roscommon
