School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 129
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- 1. Look before you leap.
2. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
3. Health is better than wealth.
4. Without treasure without friends.
5. A borrowed horse has hard hooves.
6. Gold is light with a fool.
7. The juice of a cow is good dead or alive.
8. No man is wise at all times.
9. A person's mouth often broke his nose.
10. One kettle knows another.
11. Ireland is our country.
12. Work is better than talk.
13. The thing that is got easily is spent easily.
14. He who has much gets more.
15. Better late than never.
16. It is easier to fall than to rise.
17. A chip off the same block.
18. An empty sack won't stand.
- Collector
- Mary Halpenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Philipstown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- John Halpenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Philipstown, Co. Louth
