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School: Knockerra (C.), Killimer

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Knockerra, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Cholgain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0629, Page 201

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    That boy has a fine cuille kick when playing football.
    She gave him a cliotar in the jaw

    You are like cearc na lóipini. When a hen had a brood of chickens her legs were generally covered with two pieces of cloth to prevent her scraping the garden too much

    Other words commonly used in Knockerra are:-
    Flaitheamhail
    crúibín
    croch
    plibín gaoithe (said of a giddy person
    réidteoir (for a pipe)
    fine Seibeanach of a cat or pig
    don't be cogarnach
    maist (paper used to light a pipe)
    prabhaiseál
    smidiríni
    slibín (when one is very wet)
    Dia le cabhair cughann
    You have great lámhséail in that
    There is a fadarcán in the wood.
    Pick the caisearbáin
    The ducks are in the slugaire
    I had searbhas in him
    I lost the cráinin na speile
    The cow neasc-ed over
    There is smútán on your face.
    She put a súgan corr on the rick
    That woman is a geócach
    The child is a gleoisín
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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