School: Corderay (roll number 12735)
- Location:
- Shancurry, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 266
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Craw-dawn.
A gossoon or grown child that constantly plucking after grown up people an old fashioined cur of a gossoon is often called a Craw-dawn.
It also is applied to the sticky seeds of a certain weed or coarse grass. those that stick to your clothes when passing through.Shoughrawn
A man hard-up or broke is said to on the shough-rawn.It's a poor cishte "Kishtah" meaning It's a poor state of affairs.There was neither yig naw yow of him.
He made a foo-faw of it - fho as sounded who.
A lisper - You old manntach ye.
He went down as a bohereen.
There were streaks of sweat on him.
He only a gub-bawn = a poor tradesman.
He was lying on a purlogue or purh-logue of rushes (a clump of growing rushes = purr logue)
Don't he floughyule = princely or generous.
