School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0095
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- 1.
Meitheal.
It is so called when a crowd gathers to help at the cutting of corn or anything.
2.
Mhuirnín.
A person that would not know your name.
3.
Caorán.
What your would call to a small piece of turf.
4.
Clamsánaí.
grumbling
5.
Dubhachán.
A heap of turf.
6.
Práisgín.
What a shoe-maker wears making shoes.
7.
gliogar.
A rotten egg.
8.
A grádh.
When they like a person very dearly the old people say "a grádh"
9.
Manntach.
A person that has lost a tooth.
10.
Tráithníns.
When the hay is cut they say "pick up the tráithníns.
- Collector
- Peggy Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ranamackan, Co. Galway
- The animals we have at home are five cows, one horse, one poney, and twenty-seven sheep. When a cow has calved the hair on the udder is burned off with a blessed candle. The people think(continues on next page)
