School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Garrán an Chaisleáin Thoir, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Castlegrove
- XML Page 0039
- XML “Seanfhocail”
- XML “A Funny Story”
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)5) Youth without learning and wearing fancy clothes is like a gold ring on a pig's nose.6) Curses like chickens come home to roost
7) Despise school and remain a fool8) Early to bed and early rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise9) Empty barrels make most noise - One very cold morning in January a milkman was travelling the streets of a large Town in England, delivering milk. The vehicle in which he carried the cans of milk was a small cart drawn by a miserable looking black donkey. At length he came to a large building, surrounded by fancy railing. He took a large can of milk from the cart and went round to the back of the house to give it in.
In the meantime a number of boys who had hidden themselves some yards away came forward to execute their plan. They unyoked the donkey, lead him inside the railing, then a few of them pushed the shafts of the cart through the railing and had the donkey(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Mooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Chonla, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Thomas Mooney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Chonla, Co. na Gaillimhe