Dictionary Entries

salann

'sé an salann soir é géadhaí Iorrais thíocht go hEacaill (MC), it is like coals to Newcastl (sean-ocal).

innis

is ait an innis í sin (Sb), that is a wonderful innis, i. excellent land.

cleiteach

tá an garla cleiteach ar a' gcirc, the hen is in her pen-feathers

cleas

ní rabh cor ná cleas as, (the boy) was very quiet and well conducted in a strange house

cabhail

bhí an teach i n-oirde cabhlach agam, sidewall high

bánú

bhí an t-oileán le bánú .i. na daoine le n-a thréiscint, to be evacuated.

caróg

a small species of seagull, most likely the black-headed gull. There were big numbers of carógs on the island of Moyinnish (?) in Clew Bay where limestone was got to build Inishkea school

bréan-lóib

black rotten bog matter under blown sand at sea-edge. The slip (céibh) should have been built on rocks, but instead it was built on the bréanlóib, consequently had no proper foundation and did not last.

Tá an Rí curtha, soir ag an mballa sin, soir

The king is buried over to the east, at that wall there

sna áit ina bhfuil na clocha geala

in the the place where there are the bright stones

Níl an cuimhniú dhomsa, ar an chéad doine a curthú ann

I don't recall the first person to be buried here

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