School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 072
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- (continued from previous page)It is hard to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
There was never an old boot but got an old stocking.
A barking dog seldom bites.
It is not every day that Maurice kills a bullock..
Cap fit him, cap wear him.
When the old cock crows the young one learns.
Don’t hallo till you are out of the wood.
The third dog often gets the bone.
It is sore honey that is licked off a briar.
If you lie with dogs you will rise with fleas.
A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
It is a bad dog that is not worth whistling for.
God's work is no wonder.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- D. Crowley
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Miss Monaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fennor Upper, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Devin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumsawry or Summerbank, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Henry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Hetherton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Lang
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tubride, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Gunn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Reynolds
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinvally, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
