Farming life
Feilm - Farm
Feilmeoirí - farmers
Lá Grá Dia - a day where you'd help your neighbour with their farm work
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Farming equipment
Baiscéad - basket
Buicéad - bucket
Caidéal - pump
Cléibh - basket, creel
Cairt – cart
Cuibhtheach - tie, fetter
Sac – hessian bag Saic – hessian bags
Sluasad - shovel
Bhuail fear faoi a spáid - a man leaned on his spade
Tornóg – dry kiln
Pardóg - baskets put on donkeys to carry things; pannier
Cairt bheithigh - horse cart
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Thatching
Súgán buinn - straw ropes used for thatching
a'cur scoilb - thatching
Tuí bobailín – tufted straw, thatch
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Turf
Fód – turf
Monadh – turf, peat
Cruach – stack, pile
Scraith – top layer of land
Fraois – small bits of turf etc.
Píosaí dh'fhóidí mónadh - pieces of sods of turf
ag dhul féadú dho baint móineadh - busy cutting turf
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Tools for cutting turf
Laighe – turf spade
Sleán – spade for cutting turf
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Farm buildings
Scioból – barn
Stáblaí - stables
Scioból a’chapaill – horse stable
Scioból na mba – cowshed
Maistreadh - churn
Stáiblín an asail – donkey stable
Carn aoiligh – manure heap
leasú talún - fertilizer
Salchair - muck
Grúpa - containment area for animal waste
Cró – outhouse, shanty
Peilic – laying coop
Leaba clárthaí - plank beds
Dorú - line (for marking out land)
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