School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Newtown, Kells
- XML Page 05_009
- XML “Proverbs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Proverbs are wise "old sayings" used by people in conversations.
There are many old sayings around this locality.
When a person is mending a small hole on a garment, another person may say "Why are you losing thread on that small hole" The first peson says "A stitch in time saves nine.
When a person is working very hard another person says "Dont be working so hard, take your time. As Pat Duggan says "When your dead your dead for a long time."
When a person is(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Ní Longáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Edward Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny