Agriculture
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Land
Conlach – a field of stubble (after harvest)
Talamh bán – open ground
Talamh láidir – rough land
Talamh réidh – prepared, arable land
Talamh mianach - quality ground
Garraí - field, plot of land
Garraíonntaí - plots
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Crops
Arbhar – cereals
Grán - grain
a'borradh - growing, thriving
Seagal - rye
Dias – ear (of corn)
Dias arbhair - an ear of corn
Stoca - stook
Corraiceog – a stook of corn
Corraiceogaí - small stooks of corn
a'stocadh arbhair - stooking corn
Cruach arbhair - stack of corn
Porann – sheaf Purnachaí - sheaves
Stuaic – a bundle of sheaves tied together
Bualadh a'tuairgnín - beating (the sheaves) with the pestle
Coirce - oats
a'bualadh coirc - threshing the oats
Tuairgnín – pestle, pounder
a'cáitheadh coirce - winnowing oats
a'tógáil choirc' - lifting oats
Thóigeadh siad a'coirce nuair a mbeadh iomarcaí air - they'd take the oats when it was getting excessive
A’cáitheadh – winnowing
cáitheadh gaoithe - winnowing wind
Cáithleach – chaff
Seol fascaidh - sheltering sail
'achaon gaisc le ceann - each blow
'achaon gaisc le buile – every second blow
B'fhéidir go mbeadh sé a'dóirteadh amach thar a'mbrat - maybe it was about to overflow off the sheet
a'sciobadh - recessing
Cruach - stack Cruachaí – stacks
Cruithneachta – wheat
Eorna - barley
Thabharfá abhaile 'un a'tí - you'd bring it home to the farm
Agus é caití le chéilí sa dlúth sa gcaoi go mbeadh an ghaoth agus an t-aer in ann dhul isteach faoin gcruach - the stones thrown tightly together in order that the wind and air could get back under the stack
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Tools for crops
Súiste - flail Súistí – flails
Eagart - yard for the oats, haggard
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Hay
Féir - hay
Síogáin – haystacks
Súgán - a hay rope
Súgán féir – hay rope Súgáin - hay ropes
Cailleach shúgáin – ball of hay rope
Baigheantaí – swathes
Casadóir – twister
Fáiméir – rush used to stabilise a haystack
Fáiméirí - rushes used to stabilise haystacks
Sciobhal – watershed
Fearrbhach - a base made of stones (for corn or a haystack)
Gráinneog – small pile of hay Gráinneogaí – small piles of hay
Baighe féir - swathe of hay
Sop – wisp
ar a'tsop - on the straw
a'tiontú - turning hay
A’spealadóireacht – using a scythe
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Tools for cutting hay
Corrán – sickle
Speal - scythe
Cloch spile – scythe stone
le haghaidh faobhar a chur ar a'speal - to sharpen the scythe
Doirnín - hand grip on a scythe
Píce - fork
Píce féir – a pitchfork
Sraith - windrow
Bheadh sé caití amach ina shraith ar a'talamh nó go bhfaigheadh sé an ghriain ar a'taobh sin - it would be thrown down in a windrow on the ground in order to get the sunshine on that side
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Ploughing
Basladh bréige - false bastling
Cliaith - harrow
Fuirstith’ – harrowed
Romhar – dig
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