School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 128
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Too many cooks spoil the broth
(4)
Hills are fare green far away
(5)
Hunger is good sauce
(6)
An amadan has his sense has his own sense
(7)
Look before you leap
(8)
Do not put off till to morrow what you can do to-day
(9)
Everything that glitters is not gold
(10)
Every cloud has a sliver lining
(11)
A good beginning is half the work
(12)
Have a thing yourself on be without it
(13)
The more hurry the less speed
(14)
Counting the chickens before they are out
(15)
A half a loaf is better than no bread(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Shaw
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Shaw
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
