Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
![The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0148](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbe/CBE_0407%2FCBE_0407_0148.jpg?format=jpg&width=1600&quality=85)
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0148
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“Look at the draid hat on him...”
Look at the opened ____ on him. Mannt in ditch, etc stadaire, prominent ugly tooth. Máilín used when setting potatoes. Práistín, rough canvass apron for house, yard work. Fallbó's, dainty semi - transparent garments: dressed in "Fallbós".
A real dúsmánaí: head down and no word. Sgianach, piece of potatoe without eye
Suasán agus spad, light and useless part of the turf
A fine caoin man: he has a caoin way of going through the people
Croisín________ For washing potatoes. "The last thought a his (?)(no title)
“Shinig like barrach in a bog-hole.”
Shining like Barrach in a bog - hole (Carlow)
If you broke off where you cracked you'd very shovel (?)(Carlow)
As far as you would see capall leath (Carlow)
As ignorant as tón na muice (Carlow)
While you'd cracking a match
You'd hear her bawling in the domhan thoir
If you dug down to Tír na nÓg you wouldn't get water there
There is not a bit in him except his father
She carried th'ass agin me to the station.
Gather yourself out of that
Giving every leap out of his body
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