School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)
- Location:
- Loughteeog, Co. Laois
- Teachers: Brigid Keane Brighid Ní Chatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0837, Page 260
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- (continued from previous page)Scalt - the irish sod - Raising the Scalt in ploughing
Strig / Struig - taking the last drops of milk from cow
"Strigging" and "Snigging" "Stripping" all used
Bun-ditch - an earthen bank, or earth and stones mixed, on which no bushes or trees grow
Puilleach / Pollach - CF page 155 for 1,2,3
also means a bit of an old bank left on the low bank of the bog. It has the best of black turf called "Pullocks"
Eolan - CEOLÁN ? - a kind of worthless creature e.g. "I have an OWLD YAAN of a goose" - v.c.(?)
applied to human beings also
Seal Siar or Dhul Siar - pron. "shull sheer"
Said thus " They got a SHALL SHEAR for 1 hour
The farmer says to his men "Work now (extra hard) and I'll give you a "Shull Shear". If the work in hand were finished at 5pm. he does not ask them to begin on another field but allows them to rest till 6pm, the usual laying-off hour.
