School: Sruthar (C.)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Éanacháin
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- (continued from previous page)súmaire. The gabhlóg is called by all people to a forked stick which is put under the cart to keep it up, when there is a load on it without a horse. Most people call moss treanlas. The people say there is caonach-liath on anything when it is old. The bothán is called always to the hen house and the people never dream of calling it anything else but the bothán.
- When a person is describing another person who is very wild they call him a hareóg. When a person is expressing how he hates another person he says he has the dearg gráin for him. When a person is describing a man who is very drunk, he says that he is dallta coming home from the fair. When a person is referring to a child who cannot do anything right he callshim a midhce. When a person is always visiting the neighbours they call him a Cuairtín i mbothán. When people are saying the good turf is gone they say that they have nothing left but "Spáid."
- Collector
- Máire Ní Longáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Paddy Langan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
