School: Drumkilly
- Location:
- Drumkilly, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Owen Mc Govern
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- ''A half loaf is better than no bread''
''The long thread of the lazy tailor''
''Empty vessels make most sound''
''The early bird cathces the early worm''
''Of small account is a fly until it gets into the eye''
''Children and fools should not handle edge tools''
''Look before you leap''
''There is many a slip between the cup and the lip''
''For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of the horse the rider was lost.''
''Kindle the dry sticks and the green ones will catch light.''- Informant
- Mr John Galligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corlislea, Co. Cavan
- Proverbs are not used very much in this district but I managed to get a few from Miss Annie Drumm, Drumkilly, Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan and from my mother Mrs. O. McGovern of the same address
The following are as many of them as I can remember(continues on next page)