School: Kilberry (roll number 2533)
- Location:
- Kilberry, Co. Meath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 171
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- (continued from previous page)Pracas ( a mess )
Poreen ( a small potato )
Pocawn ( a goat )
Soogawn ( a straw rope,
Spadaw ( soft turf )Garagoon ( a kind of minnow or small fish )
Lanawalla ( plenty of everything )
Bolk() ( head of flail )Brooteen ( mashed potatoes with butter )Geanncaine ( an insignificant person Glug ( a bad egg )
Croob, Croobeen ( a pigs foot )Samushaa-and-musha ( a fat contented woman )Shoneen ( an Irishman with an English outlook )Crockan ( a rocky field beside a lake or bog )Glar, Claubar ( mud in a drain or bog, (2) or road )Slim ( potato cake )
Cawr ( a grin )
Puss ( a "mouth" )
Go lore ( plenty )Megileen ( eelskin or horsekin joining "bolkeen" to handstaff ( on a flail )Brisha, Brashen ( when butter comes during churning )Batha ( a short fork used by thatchers )Ceilidhe ( a visit or chat with a neighbour )The Leckna ( the mumps)Monthil ( a rope put in the mouth and round the jaws of a cow to hold her while being dosed )
