School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 334](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0694%2FCBES_0694_334.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 334
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 334
A lot of Names for a Fish that lives
in a ditch1 Golugun
2 Maneater
3 Docka LuacarThey are a dirty fish that live in a dirty ditch or well. They would go into your mouth & give you diabetes. The cure is to eat a lot of salt & then hold your head over water so that the "maneater" would come out for a drink.
This is a kind of lizard which is called in Irish Airc-luacar - the "Craos-Deamhan" of Fr. O'Leary's story.
I have heard it called "Docka-Luacar" round the locality - I don't know what "Docka" would be in Irish.There is a wild coarse grass growing on bad land which is called in Coolronan "luacar-gabhair."