School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Droim an Teampaill, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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- (continued from previous page)"The longest way round is the shortest way home."
"The world was not made in a day."
"The cat has nine lives."
"Never bring in butter-cups into a house."
"When going a journey it's not lucky to meet a red-haired person."
"If a horse dies you will have seven years bad luck."
"A penny wise and a pound foolish."
"It's the pennies that make the pounds
"Beg from a beggar and you will never be rich."
"Never have a track of milk in a vessel going to a well."
"When you go in the front door of a house do not go out the back door."
"Here to-day and away to-morrow."
"Never cut a brush out of a fort."
I got these Proverbs from my Grandmother
Mrs Ml. Cooney, Cloonee, Ballymoe, Co. Galway
aged 80 yearsAnnie Dowd
Cloonee,
Ballymoe- Collector
- Annie Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluain Í, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Mrs Ml. Cooney
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Cluain Í, Co. na Gaillimhe