School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 451
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- (continued from previous page)bearing on it I accordingly withdraw the name as being extant in local tradition and regret that I made the mistake of entering it as such.
LIOSTA FOCAL
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in this wise: a number of people are seated around a fire, a noise like the rumble of distant thunder is heard and someone says "is that thunder" and someone replies "no thats only 'Thoite Ruskaun' " ( = ? Toiteach Teasacháin)
"Scrow"= (? screabh) used in the same sense as Fogha = a murderous attack, thus a bull makes a "scrow" upon a person; generally I think that a "scrow" has the meaning of a Fogha that ends in failure, that is, as far as I can gather.
Dinny-hawnthe cinders left after coal ashes have been sifted to remove the very fine matter.
- Collector
- Daithí O Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
