The Countryside
Fields
Féar - grass, hay
Cúlán féir - stretch of grass
Páirc - field Páirceannaí - fields
Bunchlaí - earth heaped up to create a fence beside a ditch
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Bogland
Portach – bog
Mianach mónadh - peat
Land and soil
Talamh mianach - quality ground
Bogán – soft ground
Dóib – sticky clay
Poll – hole Poill - holes
Slaba – mud, ooze
Píosa talaí - a bit of land
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Country lanes
Bóithrín – small road
Corrsheantach - an occasional old house
Cúlán talaimh - secluded little croft
iargúlta - remote
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Ditches
Ceirt - something stuck in a ditch
Ceis – a walkway over a ditch that is made of twigs
Saich – ditch
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Wetlands
Dumhuighe - sandbank
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Miotail - metal
Ór - gold
Airgead – silver
iarann - iron
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Water
Tobar – well
a'silt anuas - dripping down
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Weaving
Ciseán – basket
Cochan – straw
Sailí - sally rods
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Material
aol - lime an t-aol - the lime
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Discussing the countryside
agus go ngabhfadh siad a'cuartú rud eicínt i dteach ar a'baile - they had to go looking for something in a house in the village