School: Drumgoose (roll number 17044)
- Location:
- Drumgoose, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: G. Mac Giolla Phádraig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0931, Page 151
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- 1. adag = a small stack of partly-seasoned corn consisting of a number of stooks.
2. tamóg = a small tuft of grass in pasture land – cattle do not eat ‘tamogs’.
3. brosna = (pron. bressna) light twigs or thorn-bush stems used to light fires.
4. gliocas = a catchy point or subtlety or part of a job which presents some difficulty.
5. méarogs = the ‘5’ in card-playing.
6. slog = a mouthful of a drink.
7. cró = a house for pigs or fowl.
8. cailleach = an old woman, or a man who does woman’s work in the kitchen.
9. margadh mór = the big fowl-marked held a few days before Christmas.
10. spág = a very large human foot.
11. boithrín = a country lane.(continues on next page)
