School: Templetown
- Location:
- Templetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Charles D. Hearne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0870, Page 101
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- SÚGÁNstraw rope twisted by handle of old bucket, used over ricks and about men's knees weeding etc.GAIBHLEÓGgawleóg a fork of furzebush used as a fork by man trimming a ditch with slashook, to hold briers.AMALACadj. descr. anything done in clumsy ungainly fashion, such as building rick, a load, trimming a hedge etc.SUIM(seem) heed. "Don't put any seem in him."DROMÁNOn horse's back ploughingGIARÓG(geeróg) short drills by side or corner
of irregular field (small sketch)
FOO-CHUPÁN(cup shaped) saucer shaped (inverted) crawler or beetle, dark green, like tortoise that puts bitter taste on blackberries
LOSADlosset board on which dough is mixedSGILÉIDskillet: three-legged pot
GRÍOSAC"greeshuck ? burnt tobacco to put on top of new fill to help kindle.
DEARGDAOL - dearragadeel. beetle
LARRYLUACHARan evet, small lizard, which if cut in two, can stick self together again.
If a man sleep out an evet may enter his mouth and into stomach, giving great appetite. To get him out, man must lie face down over basin of buttermilk, to which he will come out.(continues on next page)
