School: Baile na Carraige, Cill Díoma (roll number 11295)
- Location:
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gríobhtha
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- (continued from previous page)2) If you dont mend the old clothes you have the new clothes.
3) The longest way round is the surest way home. - 10 One good trick is better than ten bad one.
One day a fox and a cat were talking. The fox said to cat if the hounds came now, I have many tricks, but you have no trick. After a while they heard the hounds coming. The fox tried all his tricks, but was caught. The cat ran up a tree and was saved.
20 It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
3) It is too late to spare when all is spent.- Collector
- Dolly O Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Q. O Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77