School: An Gleann Ruadh, Cill Fhíonáin (roll number 3221)
- Location:
- Glenroe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Conmidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 177
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- "All in a row, like Brown's cows". - This is said when a number of people are following each other in a row. " All in a row like Brown's cows & he had only two" is sometimes used.
"Neither gíocs nor míocs out of him." - said when a thing is quite still or when a person is asleep in a drunken state.
Mo ghrádh do luidín - Said by a person on receipt of anything which is pleasing to him.
"He has no toothache now." When speaking of old walls, houses, etc, a question is sometimes asked - Who did it, Who built that or some such question - The usual answer is, I don't know who built it, but he has no toothache now."
- Informant
- M.J. Mac Namee
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenroe, Co. Limerick
