School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- A lie hurts him most who tells it.
Better alone than in bad company.
You would make a dog throw his father in the fire.
Have no "frish" frash with that person.
To make "scoilteen" whiskey butter, sugar, water and carraway boiled together.
When you clip a horse throw water into his ears and she will not get cold.
All is not gold that glistens
Its poor butter you would lick off a briar.
Beauty never boiled the pot and ugliness never thickened it.
A many a drop of water flowed down the shannon since.
He who by the plough would thrive, must either hold or drive.
He who digs a pit for others often falls into it himself.
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