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"Is giorra
'dhuine cabhair Dé 'ná an doras,".

"Tá a spuir féin agus capall dhuine eile aige."

"Dhéanfá gaisge ar chorcán praisce".

IRISH WORDS AT Feis Laighean agus Midhe, 1901.

Bardóga becomes páirdeóga in Donegal.
Buailtín, same in North; buailteán in Kerry.
Buachallán, see Proverb No. 62.  This is known to 
Kerrymen as geósadán.
Camreilge, also cosreilge, club-foot.
Criochán is a small potato, in Kerry cadhrán, a small
bit of hard turf cadhfran, North.

Crúistin is a mixture : Crust-ing.  Crústáil is
the better form. I heard the word in a humourous
song, An Tisile Bhuidhe - a hen that someone killed:
"An té chrústaigh gan chúis mo Thisile Bhuidhe."  [tSisile,
Shisile?].
Colapán is colpa, and in Scotland lurga
Dubhacáin is, I think, deócán, a reed for playing
made of green stalk of wheat or oats, agus c.

Earrais may be from iris, the straw handle of a 
cliabh, called muic-iris in Kerry.
Failleog was féithleog, a sinew, gristle, I think
from féith.  See Fr. O'Leary's Aesop III., p. 38, féith-
leach.

Gríseach is gríosach in Kerry, and feac a spade-
handle; a little half-worn spade was ciopóg.

Poc: Poc-anáirde, a high puck given to the slither
or ball with the camán (hurley); also applied to a
fairy stroke supposed to cause those sores in the leg
which often lead to contraction of the limb; "Cad
'tá air?  Ó, fuair sé poc."

AN TOBAR DRAOIDHEACHTA.

Ní ghéillim le d'bharamhail-se gur fearr Creideamh
agus Gorta 'ná An Tobar Draoidheachta.  Is dóigh liom-sa
gurab é seo an leabhar is deise, is fearr agus is Gaodhal-
aighe a tháinig ó láimh an Athar Uí Dhuinnín fós.  Níl
agat acht an dá leabhar an léigheadh os comhair aon-ne
go bhfuil cluas Ghaodhalach air agus beidh fhios agat ciaca
is feárr.

Séamus Ua Dubhghaill.
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