Concentrating upon words, their meanings, corruption and derivations, as we have been recently,… Perhaps the principal extant repository of our ancient Gaelic language in everyday use… Alice McParland wus far too fond of hoardin’ [herding] the cows in the forth as long as iver there wus glimmer of light. ‘It wus always called the Blest Well [Sunday’s Well, Glen, Newry: also St Moninna’s Well, Killeavy] an’ the cures were after sunset or before sunrise. St Patrick was born a Roman-Briton and lived his early life near Bannaven Tabernia – which may have been in what today we call Wales, or Scotland or England. His name was Maewyn Succat but he took Patricius upon becoming a priest – a name signifying leader or elder of Roman society. He was the son of a civil servant and grandson of a Christian priest. Lisbanemore was a cashel [rock fort] in Killeen on the eastern extremity of the Ring of Gullion. The following rambling account was recited – some generations ago – to a passing tourist! This couple had a wee holding in the West of Ireland and a locka acres of land, a small house and in the first year of their marriage they had a baby. very long ago! ‘She needs a square of being round!’ – she’s intellectually-challenged: she has a… The Carrick Players of Tyrone, with their performance of ‘Eclipsed’ [life in the… I find it maddening in the extreme – given that all of my forebears suffered untold hardships in this vicinity through the years of the Great Hunger of the mid-nineteenth century in Ireland – to hear a supposed authority like the former head of PRONI [named below] – at a public meeting recently in Newry – claim that our area was little affected. Blether n.v. foolish talk/erBlood fighting spirit Don’t raise his blood!Blow scold I gave him a good blowing up!Blustery stormy,… The Ring of Gullion, an igneous, intrusive, granitic rock, dominates the south-east portion…School Howlers
Gaelic Place Names 1
Wee Folk & their doings
Sundays Wells
Ye had till leave somethin’ behind ye or it wus no use. But I wus a hard-workin’ man all me lfke, an’ with the best of health, so I didn’t be troublin’ the well. St Patrick
Lisbanmore
Is it Lisbanemore ye’ve come till see? The Changeling
Round Square
Lislea: View from a Bridge
Famine in Creggan
Fews Glossary: B, 3
Geology of Armagh
