School: Cluain Uaithne Beag
- Location:
- Shannon Harbour, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Winifred Molloy
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- Amadán, práisgín, cailín, girsha, (girrseach).
That is four Irish words to begin with. In Westmeath a piece of turf is a keerawn (caorán)
At Croghan in Co offaly, the "Mummers" or actors of a rough play, are called "Huggadars" evidently from some lost Gaelic rhyme beginning with the word "chugad". Bothar (bothar) and an old field called Cor-na-smuthán.
A bush in Wexford is a Sgeach, a thorn a Dealg, a hedgehog, a Gráinneóg.
Coming to folk-lore every county has its "Ráithíns" (Raheens), its pishrogues or pishoges (pisreíga, piseoga) its fairies, such as the South Dublin "Limrachán".