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School: Knocktemple (B.)

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Knockatemple, Co. Cavan
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W. Tuite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0998, Page 210

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  1. Words and Expressions Used Locally (continued)

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    Buddhafeeka - an earwig
    Mossier or Mobier - perhaps, pretended innocence
    Moontura - fawning

    Ponkon
    an island in a bog - a piece yet to be cut but surrounded by water

    Gurreen - a troublesome pimple on neck or face
    La-clea - very hard subsoil
    Donny - very ill, dying
    Golla land - wet heavy clay land
    Porrison(?)-Bockee - a provocative little man - a brat
    Kesh - an egg box, also a timber bridge on a bog
    Laack - a low broad-built man
    Baagh - not easily fooled
    Clay-Wee - a bluish clay found under bogs

    A Buth-ree-orth
    a hanger on, a flatterer, one seeking favours
    "He was BUTH-REE-ORTHING the bog-baliff"
    = he was seeking favours from him

    Cioran - a dry crumb of turf

    Thahawn
    a thin weak delicate fellow, usually applied to a boy

    Buddha - having a frowning forbidding expression
    Kronsmur - a complaining disagreeable, cranky old man
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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