School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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- "Many a gloomy morning rose to be a fine day". This is said to parents to console them when their children are not very promising.
When a child inherits any special talent or the reverse from his parents, people then say, "It is not off the ground he picked it."
When a man or woman is praised for any special gift or talent he may possess the proverb, "What comes by nature costs no money," is quoted.- Collector
- Josephine Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- There is the ruins of a robbers' castle in Kilmainham. The robber used to(continues on next page)