School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)

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1. Proverbs

   

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   "Never count your chickens before they are hatched."
   "Never put your work which you can do today (put it) off until to-morrow."
   "Praise the youth and it will follow you".
   "He who swims in May will soon be laid in clay."
   "As you live so shall you die."
   "A watched pot never boils."
   "Far away cows wear long horns."
   "Every bird thinks it's own bird the whitest."

   

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2. Damer

   

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   At the time Cromwell was in Ireland Damer was a candlemaker who lived in Cashel. Cromwell gave him some land in Shronell. When the soldiers burned Cashel the monks before they left the Abbey they smeared the gold with tallow and the soldiers put it up for sale thinking it was tallow and John Damer bought it and when he found out it was gold he brought nine cart loads of it and he had to nail the gold to the outside of the cart. On his way he had to rest at Comans Kilfeacle about a half a mile from this school. When he reached Shronell he built a Castle there and put the gold in a strong room and

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   14

   Address

   Kilfeakle, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Willie Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   17

   Address

   Kilfeakle, Co. Tipperary