School: Cléireacháin, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Ballyclerahan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: James Bates
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- 1) A closed mouth catches no flies2) A wet and windy May
Fills the farmer's haggard with corn and hay3) When the wind is in the East
It is neither good for man or beast4) Nothing for nothing in Borrisokane
5) All together like Browne's cows6) A crow's egg, laid high or low
if hatched by a dove, turns out a crow7) You cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, or
a racehorse out of an ass8) Always late but never absent
9) Come-day, go-day, God send Sunday
10) No fireside like your own fireside
11) Have it yourself or be without it
12) In in (?) one ear and out in the other
13) Half a loaf is better than no bread
14) What comes from the Devil, goes to the Devil
15) Soher and easy, goes far in the day
16) The more, the merrier
17) The early bird catches the worm
18) Whats made hard, goes easy
19) In and out like a fiddler's elbow
20) In and out like a hen with an egg
21) Whats bread in the bone comes out in the flesh
22) A straw best shows how the wind blows- Informant
- William Ahearne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballyveelish South, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mary Ahearne
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 88
- Address
- Ballyveelish South, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Denis Ahearne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballyveelish South, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Hanora Ahearne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Ballyveelish South, Co. Tipperary