School: Cromadh (B.)
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- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- (continued from previous page)(continued from page 91)to beat the peat into "snuff". This in connection with "hand-turf"
Radaire (Cromadh) a puck (with a hurley) "with" a flying ball
Stracallacha big rough unkempt fellow. (Cromadh)
STRINE - = (? Straidhean) a streak of "cracktness"
Fústar - agus Fústaire (Cromadh)
Futachándroch-ainm a tabharthaí ar gharsún a fhliuchfadh an leaba nú a dhéanfadh aon rud
"FOOTY" mar sin (Tiob. Ár.) footy = ? Fúithí = dirty in habits.
"Now'splac-ack" = (neamh-spleadhach)always used as a substantive when I was a boy, to denote a "cool" or indifferent sort of person. (Tiob. Ár.)
Dhrad = ? Draida grin, a sneer an unpleasant cast of countenance (Tiob. Ár.)
Knapoole = ? (cnap-shúla)said of a boy who has been crying, "look at the Knapoole of him" his eyes being much swollen. (Mrs D. Lyons, Main St. Croom)
Dheana-gus-oo-actha person who gets severely ill as a result o having done something foolish, like working in his short sleeves during the rain, or knowingly lying on wet grass is said to have got this "dheana-gus-ooacth" (same source as above)
Grig = Griogto act so as to show how you begrudge others to have what you yourself have.
Gráinseog - an extremely hard cake (Cromadh)
Dhoo-ishgin the phrase "he has his Dhoo-ishg in" meaning "he has drink taken." (Cromadh)
(Grainseóg agus "Dubh-uisg" from Mrs Hayes Main St. Croom)
(Continued on page 112)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Daithí O Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir