School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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- Birds of a feather flock together.
Nice feathers make nice birds.
Time is a good storyteller.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
All is not gold that glitters
The early bird catches the fly.
Make hay while the sun shines.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
The best colt needs training.
A stitch in time saves nine.
God never closes one gap but he opens another.
Many hands make light work.- Collector
- S. T. Brún
- Gender
- Unknown
- It was not on one foot that St. Patrick came to Ireland.
It is not the big stones alone that build a castle.
Every hound is a pup until he hunts.
When wine is in wit is out.
A good character is better than a fortune
A wet and windy May fills the haggard with corn and hay.
Rome was not built in a day.
March comes in like a lion and goes out like(continues on next page)- Collector
- Páid De Búrca
- Gender
- Male