School: Corderay (roll number 12735)
- Location:
- Shancurry, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Céilleachair
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- (continued from previous page)iron smelting was carried out around here.
- 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.- Collector
- Seán Ó Céilleachair
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir