School: Kilcullen (B.)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Broin
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- Whenever a person is boasting about all the trades he knows and he not knowing how to do anything he is called "Jack of all trades and master of none".
If a field is ploughed and the furrow is crooked the people say "It was not a Kerry man ploughed that field".
When a man is taking his time when he is working, and if the foreman tells him to hurry on with the work he says that "Rome was not built in a day" Then(continues on next page)- Collector
- Pádraig De Núinnseáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Peter Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare