School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)
- Location:
- Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 008
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)" Bockanbarra "
fungus which grows on trunks of old half-rotten trees or bushes. Also applied to a fungus very like a mushroom which grows through green fields." Lannawalla "
plenty of everything, more especially food and drink"Garleygoon"
a leech or water-worm resembling one " Preshah "
yellow flowered weed which grows through corn, sometimes called wild mustard" Smweeshyah "
talking through the nose" Greesha "
red embers generally of a turf fire" Noggin "
wooden mug" Flahula "
generous, or unwisely so" Hurrish Amuc "
used for calling pigs" Grumna " looking
sour or disagreeable or vexed appearance" Skelldara "
syringe for squirting water made by boys from hollow stem of a tall plant found growing in ditches in Summer." Flahula "
generous - generally said of an extravagantly generous person who comes to poverty afterwards(continues on next page)
- Informant
- M. Farrelly
- Gender
- Unknown
