School: Tiercahan

Location:
Tircahan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0968, Page 317

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0968, Page 317

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    Sudóg - she made a sudóg (a bad heavy cake)
    Cipín - Gather a few cipeens (sticks for fire)
    Brosna - '' '' lock of Brosna ('' '' '')
    Causaí (Casán) - There is a causaí to the spring
    Craiceach - He '' '' craiceach creature
    - '' '' '' miserable or stingy creature)
    Murneach - Murneach Gums
    (said to one complaining always)
    Rithín - Raithnigh = Ferns
    Pracis = bróse - I got a prakish of a dinner (a broze)
    - '' '' '' bad dinner
    Brosna - there was a brosna of things through the house
    House was untidy
    Cuiseóg - Pull up a cuiseóg to drink through it
    Grisigh - A person who lost front teeth or
    '' child '' is too old fashioned
    Dúidín - '' pipe
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 1. Never bid the devil good morrow till you meet him.
    2. '' trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
    3. No one knows where the shoe pinches another.
    4. If the cap doesnt fit you dont wear it.
    5. Put that in your pipe, and smoke it
    6. Its hard to hunt the hare out of the bush its not in.
    7 '' '' '' take blood out of a turnip
    8. A full bag cant bend.
    9 An empy '' '' stand.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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