School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0582, Page 065
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- 1 The shortest way home is often the longest way round.
2 It must have come out of the ark. (Often said to something very old.
3. Lost the ship for a haporth of tar.
4. Cows in Connaught wear long horns.
5. O, it's donkey's years since that happened or
He'll be donkey's years doing it.
7. It is as old as the hills.
8. You're gone to glory.
9. He is as fast as a hare.
10. A bird in your hand is better than two in the bush.
11. Your as tight as twopence.
12. You must catch your hare before you can cook it.
13. As sure as a river never flowed up hill you'll never do it.
14. Your as fit as a fiddle.
15. Your as right as ninepence.
16 Your as tight as an eel's waistcoat.
17. He'd skin an eel for it hide an fat.
18 If the first of March falls on a Sunday the crows will not build their nest until Monday.
19 You're as stiff as a poker.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bella Carter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Carter
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Carter
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
