School: Árd-chill
- Location:
- Ardkill More, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonalláin
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- (continued from previous page)still person.25 "Don't count your chickens before they are hatched" - planning for the future. 26. "A bride in her shimmie" (chemise) said one time to a bottle of whiskey when the outside paper was taken off. 27. "As contrary as a sack of cats" said of a cranky person. 28. "Yo might as well be trying to pull a cat backwards out of a stocking", trying to do something impossible. 29. "There is no use in paying for a dog and barking yourself" - said to a person who pays a useless servant.
- About 20 years ago a man named James Clarke lived in Ardkill. He had a bad chimney and his house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ben Galligan
- Gender
- Male