School: Lough Gur, Kilmallock (roll number 7117)
- Location:
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: T. Collins P. Ó Seaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0516, Page 096
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- 1. The food that makes one man better kills another man.
2. Fine feathers make fine birds.
3. A merry heart goes all the day.
4. Better wear shoes than sheets.
5. Always think of a rainy day.
6. A noisy master makes a noisy school.
7. Think twice before you speak once.
8. Never put off till to morrow what you can do to-day.
9. Food is not better than sense.
10. There is not a Saturday in the year that the sun do not shine.
11. There person who waits for a fine day gets it.
12. Constant Dropping wears a stone.
13. Make the hay while the sun shines.
14. Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
- Collector
- Mary Joe Halpin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilballyowen, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Halpin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilballyowen, Co. Limerick
