School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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93. Be old when young and young when old.
94. Better is an ass that carries you than a horse that throws you.
95. Bend the twig and bend the tree,
96. Before you marry besure of a house wherein to tarry.
97. Between two stools you're sure to fall.
98. Honesty is the best policy
99. Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall, but soft upon soft makes no wall at all.
100. Smooth water runs deep.
101. Friends are plenty when the purse is full.
102. There are none so blind as they cannot see.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mrs Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeenrevagh, Co. Roscommon