School: Castlebridge (C.) (roll number 16382)
- Location:
- Castlebridge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs. Shortall
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 018
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- (continued from previous page)healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Age comes before sense.
A tongue is a sweet thing.
The juice of a cow is good dead or alive.
Ignorance is a heavy load.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Make hay while the sun shines.
No use of locking the stable door when the steed is gone.
Waste not want not.
Have it your self or be without it.
People in glass houses should not throw stones.
Cat after kind makes good mousers.
The weather is a good story teller.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
There is no life without fault.
Youth is bold but age is honourable.
You can live without your own but not without your neighbour.
Walls have ears (very true in this district).
Handsome is as handsome does.
Where ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise.
Honesty is the best policy.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Aidan O' Connor
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
