School: St Davaddog's, Tamney
- Location:
- Tawny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 427
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(6) Words with which I was familiar in my native place - the Lagan - an area approximating to the triangle formed by Letterkenny, Derry, and Strabane.Words underlined red, are common also in this school area: with red asterisk - common in this area only
Numbers quoted as pages for reference to Dineens' Dictionary - where I have discovered likely sources
borrach - a tying (flax-rope) for a cow 81
" - a male young pig
booch - a heavy blow
battle - a bundle of straw 84
bahrum - aquatic medicinal plant 84
brash - a spell at working the churn-dash, also a period of sickness
bruckle - brittle: also applied to unsettled weather: latter meaning 118
brock - badger 126
baine - house - house of ill-repute 76
bannock = 77
binn = binneog 97
blab = blister
beel = fester 88
bree= fatty juice 123
bunty = undersized person
banty = bantam(continues on next page)
