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School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin

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Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 115

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  1. The Mogailín Meidhir (continued)

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    (or old) lady, married a man "above her" or a man with means (really - when an unexpected marriage was announced) in olden days, and even ten or twenty years ago - people said "she gave him a drink out of the little black tin" or "she worked the mogailín meidhir on him"! I know people who seriously tell of the effect of this root on some of their men friends who were "caught" by the taste of the mogailín meidhir (pron.)
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