School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 06_002
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Newtown, Kells
- XML Page 06_002
- 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
- (continued from previous page)of his own, it is worth two in a bush, because the one he has in his hand, is his own, and he can keep it.
But the ones in the hedge do not belong to him.
An apple eaten fasting in the morning acts as medicine, and no Doctor is needed.
"Its too late to spare, when all is spent. This means, that is too late to begin to spare, when all your money is spent.
"The early bird catches the early worm. This proverb literally means, that the bird, which is the earliest out in the morning, is to get the first worm.
"Eary to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Other names
- Máire de Paor
- Mary Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny
