Scoil: Cluain Mór (1), Baile an Droichid

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Irish Words and Unusual Terms Used in the Clonmore School Area (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Scrish - " My feet are in a SCRISH " ( paining )
   Croosting - throwing " croosting stones "

   Mang-een - a little man, a chap who thinks himself a man ( not pronounced " man-een " )

   Gráin-óg - " you little old GRÁIN-ÓG you " ( not grown up as should be ) ( also a rut )

   Slain - for cutting turf
   Sprong - a manure fork

   Cacks - old shoes worn round the kitchen or to keep the children's feet from thorns when gathering sticks

   Cubby - little place under the stairs (play cubby house or baby house as shop etc for chn(?))

   Tilly - giving " luck ", giving anything extra
   Óinseach - used as bacach - to either man or woman
   Gomilla - ( gom ) - a fool

   Gawk - " give us a GAWK at the paper ". " Don't be standing there GAWKING ( staring )

   Inch - a level field near a river

   Bruss - " he made BRUSS of the straw " - broke it into small pieces

   Rule-án - same as Oil-eán, a big clumsy fellow

   Kish - " A kish of turf " There was usually one man in a locality for measuring turf - " He praised ( measured ) the turf "
   He was called a " PraiSHer ". Patsy Doolin ( Dowling ) was the local "praiser". He meausred it either on the " spread " or in the clamp.

   Dess - To arrange the sods of turf on the outside of a rick or clamp

   " Eye-ruch " - a roughness of the skin - " I have EYERUCK in my neck from this torn starched collar " ( Tom Donnelly )

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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