School: Corderay (roll number 12735)

Location:
Shancurry, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Céilleachair

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Craw-dawn.
A gossoon or grown child that constantly plucking after grown up people an old fashioined cur of a gossoon is often called a Craw-dawn.
It also is applied to the sticky seeds of a certain weed or coarse grass. those that stick to your clothes when passing through.

Shoughrawn
A man hard-up or broke is said to on the shough-rawn.
It's a poor cishte "Kishtah" meaning It's a poor state of affairs.
There was neither yig naw yow of him.
He made a foo-faw of it - fho as sounded who.
A lisper - You old manntach ye.
He went down as a bohereen.
There were streaks of sweat on him.
He only a gub-bawn = a poor tradesman.
He was lying on a purlogue or purh-logue of rushes (a clump of growing rushes = purr logue)
Don't he floughyule = princely or generous.

Collector
Seán Ó Céilleachair
Gender
male
Occupation
múinteoir
Language
English