School: Mullach Buí (roll number 2793)
- Location:
- Castletowncooley, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Micheál De Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0658, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)33. Póirín - The potatoes are small, they are only "paurins".
34. Sgrios - A term of contempt; a mean, low, sgrios.
35. Pocán - Applied to a stout low-sized man or boy.
36. Smál - There is not a "smoll" on me.
37. Dos - A "dhus" of hair.
38. Droighean; sometimes droighneán - blackthorn.
39. Cnádán - A cranky, crying, peevish individual.
40. Cuaireamacht - too much "kooramath" (attention, care)
