School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- (continued from previous page)= Rabhta Fearthana = Bathrum in Cuid 1 (Tiob. Ár.)(I always heard the word in connection with the heavy rain-fall which often came about August 15th and which used do serious damage to barley that was not then cut. It was never soley "rout" but always "Lady's rout")
GiodánA young man in this district who had been playing at pitch and toss complained to a friend that the "other lads" had cleaned him out. "That's good for your Giodán" replied his friend. (Seán Craig (?) 14, dalta sgoile, a chuala an chaint sin agus a thug an focal dom. Wm O'Connell, elsewhere quoted, says he heard the word used with the signification of "gizzard" or "stomach", when he was a boy)
Kim-eens = ? Cimíní ?Comaoine used here in the sense of tricks, antics, sometimes of a questionable nature; a grown-up says to a youngster "stop the kimeens" = "stop the foolish tricking"
Fídí, Fídí Fídíi gCromadh and Fíní, fíní, fíní and also FÍMICÍ fínicí fínicí --- i dTiob. Árann, when calling home the ducks. The continued repetition of the latter WORD, beginning on a high note and gradually descending, the final í being cut out in the descent, is the very nearest thing to the evening call of the Cúirliúin, not of course to the single cry but to the long-sustained, quivering, plaintive note that you may hear from the Currachs in twilight of a May evening.
Biadh, biadh, biadh the universal call-home in
(continued on page 91)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Bean Mh. Uí Thuathaill
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Conchubhar Ó Coileáin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Donncadh Ó Donngaile
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Maurice Devaney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Micheál Ó Domhnaill
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Muiris Ó hAodha
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 15
- Informant
- Patrick Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Gueirin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- R. Butler
- Gender
- Unknown
- Informant
- Thomas Reeves
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Ballygrennan, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Tomás Ó Mórdha
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 15