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School: Deravoy (roll number 373)

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Derryveagh, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
E. Treanor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0959, Page 003

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  1. List Of Words and Phrases that Have Been Adopted into the Popular English Speech of the Galltacht (continued)

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    cabar – traces of food after eating – light frost – remains “cabar” of etc
    clabar – mud Crupan – disease of cattle on poor pasture
    cruit – a hump
    cis – turfbasked (ciseán) same. Ceis – makeshift bridge
    ciseanach – a corpulent person (male)
    corrog – an unweldy stout female
    caoin (keen) to cry
    cab (gab) the mouth – contempt
    crathan – thatch of hay or corn stack
    cíoran (geeran) boards of cart above bocsán
    crobh – half shut hand (claw)
    curc – tufts of feathers on hen’s head.
    cogaran (cogarnaigh?) whispering
    dream (drame) “é” a flock of goats etc
    dul a noose; donaidhe – (donny) very ill
    dalra – a fosterchild
    dranntán – humming of a song
    deor – a tear – deoraidhe – one who is lost
    dreadal? or straggles from companions
    or dreadál a scared looking person – one who has not a steady appearance
    fircin – a short stout man
    fanus – space between two front teeth
    flustering (flustaraigh?) verb noun a dog leaping round his master
    fúsaigh (a feed or meal)
    glam (verb) to catch or to try to catch awkwardly
    grisgin – a rasher – skin badly burned.
    giostraidhe – a precocious youngster.
    glár – soft mud. glarach – muddy
    geannt – a yawn gunnc – goirge (gorgy) óinseach
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. glossaries (~227)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    E. Treanor
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Teacher
    Informant
    John Treanor
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    77
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Glen More, Co. Monaghan