School: Baile Giolla tSionáin (B.), An Gleann (roll number 11307)
- Location:
- Ballygiltenan Upper, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0480, Page 204
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- Though there is no native Irish speaker in the parish, as the only two (Mr Patrick Hanrahan, Kinnard and Pats Connell, Scart) who had a fairly good spoken knowledge of the language have died within the last ten or twelve years, the following words are frequently heard:-Buachallán (weed); cadhran (bit of turf)Polltóg (a blow): a ghrádh ghil (darling)Treasnán (a cross couple) beart (bundle)Fraoch (heather); bóthairín ( a little road)Cliabh ( a basket) cliabhán ( a cradle)Criochán ( a small potato); fadhbán ( a big potatoe)Craobh ( a branch); luidín ( a small finger)Cnuicín (a little hill); túrtóg (a little lump)Cíaróg (a black worm); slug (a drink)Dúairnín (the small handle in a scytheCluasánaidhe (a clout) scairt ( a heap of briers)Ceanabhán (the thing with the white head the mountain) crúiscín (a jug); sop (a drop)Gallúchar (rushy hay); tráithnín (a little blade of grass) gort (a grove); striall (a torn girl)Onseach (a foolish girl); sugán (a sugan)(continues on next page)
