NOTES ON SOME IRISH WORDS USED 397 



Page ^y, calliogh = cAWX^At, often translated in 

 Connacht as *' presty." 



Page 91, pieberagh = piob^ifve. The gh ought to be 

 omitted, there is no guttural sound. 



Page 95, bollogh = \iA\XAt^ '* speckled spotted." 

 Maxwell means bollav = bAtb, dumb or stuttering. 



Page 129, Cead Fealtagh, a dreadful spelling for the 

 sound of " Caed Faultia " = Ce^-o ^.^ilce, '* a hundred 

 welcomes." 



Page 141, leprehawn = leitptM06^n, probably derived 

 from ttig-eofvpx^n " small bodied one," a little fairy. 



Page 142, farsett = pexit^fxMX) " a tide way." Belfast 

 is a corruption of Bel-farsett. In Irish, bex^t-peitifce, 

 or the '^ mouth of the farsett." 



Page 146, for dignita tern read dignitatem ; Page 153, 

 for " but not" read "not but." 



Page 167 drimindhu is a poem and air, in Irish 

 •o|\uimfriotin T)tjti), i.e., " the black white- backed," a name 

 for a pet cow, but allegorical of Ireland. 



Page 171, cota more = cdzA ni6p, '* great coat." 



Page 185, middoge, in Irish tnioT)65, once apparently a 

 formidable dagger, Scotch Gaelic *' biodag," which is the 

 same word, but now fallen from its high estate, and 

 often used of any old knife. 



Page 193, booUie, Irish t)tiAile, " a milking or herding 

 place for cows." 



Page 210, crughadore = c\<ot AX)6M^y "a hangman," ; 

 mogh-a-droul, perhaps for mAC aw 'OMbxMt, "son of the 

 devil." 



Page 218, neil an skeil a gau maun = ni't x^on foil 

 ASAxw Aim, ** I have no skill in it." Maxwell has joined 

 the m to the wrong word. He does this twice, which 

 shows he had little knowledge of Irish. 



Page 218, far a gurta = |:eti|\ a t>o^zA, " the famine 

 grass ;" some people say peAjx a' ^o\\za, " the famine 



