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Focail Ghaeilge i gCanúint na nDaoine

Abstract: Story collected by Padraig Ó Duncáin, a student at Clonmellon (B.) school (Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath) (no informant identified).

Original reference: 0725/1/14

 Clonmellon (B.) [Vol. 0725, Chapter 0001]

County  The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Westmeath Schools

COLLECTOR
Duncáin, Padraig Ó 
Gender
male
Age
14

Story text

transcribed at

 

Focail Ghaeilge i gCanúint na nDaoine  [duchas:4980149]

Amadán
Duidín   (pipe)

Gludóg   =   numbness (from cold) in fingers or ears

Garabán  =   mean person
Traneen  =   blade of grass

Keening= a dog's cry in the night-time

Gamalook   =   foolish person

Greesh d   =   glowing embers from fire

( ó Padraig Ó Duncáin 14)

Trip d (?)   =   little stool
Bogán   =   soft egg
Fear gorta   = sudden hunger
Spailpín   =   labourer


Drimnmodn dubh-easy-going fellow

Cludóg   =   name for eggs collected from farmers' at Easter

Ciarán   =   sod of turf (caorán?)
"nibbling"   =   a little stone

(Mícheál Ó Dargaín  14)

DUDÓG in the ear   =   slap, blow
Cípín   =   small stick

(Mícheal Ó Gadrhra)

Pucán   =   he goat
Bróg   =   (boot)
Praiscín (apron)

Dromán  ( strap going across horse's back when ploughing 

(Padraig Ó Duncáin)

Gáibín   (foolish person)
Merlín   =   cover for cut finger
Gogaí (egg)
Dróinín   (lazy fellow)
Scraws   (scraith, grassy sod)

Mícheal Ó Dargaí

Suim   (sim) heed
Clabár   (mud)
Crubeen   (caipín, cap)
Flawhoo:'l   (wasteful)

Lawn a wa: 'la  (lán a'bhaile)   = abundance

Girsa  (giorsao, girl)
Maoilín   (hornless goat)

"Shan", shaneen ( the smallest pig in the litter)

Resource description

Origin information
Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 010
Volume 0725
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher P. Ó Droighneáin.
Languages
English  Irish  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Irish language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Glossaries--Gluaiseanna
School location
Clonmellon Ráistín Clonmellon Killua Delvin Westmeath
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5116041
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 0725/1/14

Suggested credit
"Focail Ghaeilge i gCanúint na nDaoine"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5116041>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher P. Ó Droighneáin.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

School location

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