School: Knocktemple (B.)
- Location:
- Knockatemple, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: W. Tuite
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- (continued from previous page)Smaurth - silence stopping a scolding match
Porthon - a scraw or piece of bog with grass or rushes attachedPolthoge - an untidy bandage or dressing on a wound
Mockswelk - a kind of knaveMareing - like a finger of a glove, made from calico for a sore fingerRucky - spots on facePinkeen or Corabawn
diminutive fish foundin bog-holesSpalpeen / Squilpeen
a potato digger from the westSkhelpeen - a young breamFodheroge
the first position in which mud-turf is put, one sod lying on bank and two leaning on itMoonoge
a mixture of cows' urine and manure, plants are dipped before being planted.Muckeries - the red berries of the wild roseShamshogs
little plants, larger than shamrocks, taste sweetlyBoulkeen - the hitting part of the flailMeggileen
a strip of skin holding the two parts of the flail togetherCregera-buee
some kind of wizard
"What will we do says O, says O.
What will we do says Andy Roe,
What will we do says brother and Three
We'll throw him in the 'Say' says The Cregera-buee"Losid
a shallow box with lid and four legs in which bread etc was kept from one meal until wanted for next; was an article of furniture in the kitchenBraddha - an animal fond of trespassing(continues on next page)