School: Cnapach (Crappagh) (roll number 7529)
- Location:
- An Chnapach, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Mrs Horan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 257
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- (continued from previous page)Mescain of butter - a piece of butter made up in pounds or 1/2 lbs.
Brogues - shoes
Pigh - a sigh such as given by a cow meaning a "breath"
Shuck - a drinking hole
Gam - a foolish person
Smithereens - small broken pieces
Crowl on a creepy - smal person sitting on a low stool
Greasach - live cinders or red ashes
Giobbles - torn clothes
Miley cow - cow without horns
Traoc - an attack of sickness
Meithuil - a crowd of people
Taoim the Prataí - teem the potatoes
a Puckán - is a small little fellow
Páltóg or a wallop - is a slap in the ear
Miteán - for gloves
a Gubán is put on a young calf's mouth to keep it from eating straw
a Lout - a lazy person
a Ludering - is a sound beating
a tramp or a women with a cross tongue is called a "Shiular"
the white plant that grows in the bog is(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Very Rev. M. Mc Carville
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Teach an Scotaigh, Co. Mhuineacháin
