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saighdiúaí
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seed-heads and stems of narrow-leaved plantain (slánlus)
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ceannruán
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See Éigse vi, 37, for description. This I take to be the common goby; cf. Larousse: gobidés . . . osseux, de petite taille, avec une grosse téte, des yeux plus ou moins saillants, des nageoires pelviennes. Young lads in Tóin na hOltaí collect them in buckets to feed cats: íosaidh na cait iad.
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faoile
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all the fore-going names are current in Erris, but are differentiated thus: an fhaoile mhór, great black-back, also in the proverb iasacht a' roilligh gon fhaoile; faoileann in the bird-name seabhac cac faoileann, and in n.l. Carraic na bhFaoileann in Faulmore, off Inishkea North; faoilleán is the usual name for 'sea-gull' in general, in lieu of which faoilhóg is the general word in Dú Chaocháin. seagull
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sea-pink; PsC cast doubt on this meaning
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taéradh
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chuir sé taéradh oram, he saluted me, spoke to me in passing (Wm); chuir sé taéradh cainte air (TmB). salutation
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figh
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cho díreach le figh, as straight as a rush (BS); trí feagha/feá/ní thúrfainn air, I wouldn't give three straws for it, it is worthless; (tá) bárr na bhfeágh dóití, the top of the rushes is burned because they are cursed, like a' raithneach agus a' chloch gheal (AL). rush
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carraighe
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rough scabby skin on legs of hens
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buarach
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rope tied round cow's neck in byre
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iuchair
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roe, in female herring (hard and brown) as opposed to an leóbán, milt, in male (bog bán)
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turlainn
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also applied to the loose stoes half-way up Croagh Patrick (ML); clocha turlainne, beach stones (PAG). rocky foreshore, stone beach
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cruthú
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tá árd-chruthú ann, there is great feeding in it; beidh a' cruthú sa bhfairsingeacht, there is always good return, good grazing, from a wide extensive scope of land rich feeding quality (in land)
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