School: Corderay (roll number 12735)
- Location:
- Shancurry, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Céilleachair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 126
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- (continued from previous page)"are" the mark left as a result of burn or cut on a body
"Care -awns" clods of turf
"buck-awns" for hanging a door
Tréad-awns lice or vermin(body louse)
"I saw tray-dauns creeping on the poor fellow"
Crab a dawn an old fashioned or sly boy
Far a bawn Crowfoot weed
Bris gawn silver weed
gree-sheen crying or lamenting over nothing and an on looker or adviser says
Don't make a gree sheen of yourself
Coor-shawn a hoarseness or soft spittle in throat
Is there a coor shawn in your throat or have you a coor shawn
leer (?) a sarcastic smile
ness gan of butter small quantity compared with a tub of butter
cleeve of turf here means a creel or that which a man can carry on his back by hold on to an "Ersh" or straw handle
Paur dóg or baur douge wooden creels with movable bottoms for pulling out manure on an ass's back
Vootheen a pious person one who frequents the sacraments and who detests in an outstanding manner any bad talk. One more or less despised called a crawthumper"
- Collector
- Seán Ó Céilleachair
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
