School: Dooroc, Drumlish (roll number 13438)
- Location:
- Dooroc, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Kenny
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- (continued from previous page)Quiet words are weighty words.
Rome was not built in a day.
Save in order to spend wisely.
Skill is better than strength.
Teach others by your own example.
Two heads are better than one.
Virtue alone is true nobility.
Violent fires soon burn out.
Where theres a will theres a way.
Whats once done cannot be undone.
When wine is in, with is out.
Whatever you do do it well. - The following toys are made by girls, dolls, string flowers, necklaces from haws or holly berries. Boys make scouting guns, they make them from follans. They scoup the heart out of them and tie a piece of rag on the end of the stick and soap it. Then they place it in a pool of water and it sucked up the water.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Anne Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Oghil, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Hugh Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Oghil, Co. Longford