School: Kilmore (roll number 16126)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shamhráin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 486
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- (continued from previous page)treheens = sort of leggings made from strips of sacks used by potato-diggers.
Rúog knee garters made from ropes. (James ORourke 86)
mar dhead - ma tead
strampín - tying put on goats legs
posset = hot milk
Fútherín something being done awkwardly
arcán - person who does not grow tall.
talach - strained muscles in wrist cured by tying a light bandage on it.
boreen
poirín - small potatoes
skep - straw hive
dereen - name of field
Star móg - long winded story, usually a lying
pistreog - nonsense
bláb = used for bubbles or blots on copies.
daol = earwig that comes in on clothes from hedge in Summer.
piochan = applied to hoarse coughing or chicken having gapes
Sruthán = old name part of Drumcowra near cross roads, where stream runs into Drumcowra lake
sunc = a blow
brúitín= mashed potatoes
bannock = oaten cake baked in front of fire
prugh = a dwelling house kept in slovenly fashion with dirty surroundings
stramhas pron. sthreece - broad smile
stáir - sulk
griosas = grid iron
bacóg = of turf
- Informant
- James O' Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Drumcoura, Co. Leitrim
