Clare Island Survey — Gaelic Plant and Animal Names. 4 7 



(Ballinlough) the Glare Island form is used, and in North Dublin the 

 formbjuorloj. The root is called btucAn in Clare Island, where, as in 

 many other parts of Ireland and in Scotland, it is roasted and eaten by 

 boys. 



bogltip, Soft Plant. Seneeio aquaticus Hudson, Marsh Ragwort. — This name is 

 applied in Glare Island and on Achillbeg to the early state of the 

 Marsh Ragwort when it shows only the rosette of succulent base-leaves 

 which are pounded and used as a poultice for sores. The plant in this 

 stage of growth is held to be quite a distinct species from the flowering 

 Marsh Ragwort, which along with the closely allied Common Ragwort 

 (S. Jacobaea) is known as boc^bAn. According to one Clare Island 

 authority, an Irish speaker, the word boglup denotes merely the pounded 

 leaves or poultice, and in this sense is often applied to the pounded leaves 

 of Sb<su tup as well as to the Marsh Ragwort, 



boljAn wrack, ) Bagged or Bladder Wrack, 



boilgin wrack. J Fucus vesiculosus Linne. — Both names, suggested by the 

 small pouches, pockets, or bladders borne by the plant, are applied at 

 Belclare, Clew Bay, to the common seaweed known in English as the 

 Bladder Wrack. " If you boil that boitjin wrack in strong sea-water, 

 it's a grand thing for rheumatism in the legs." The English dialect word 

 wrack for sea-weed is in common use in this part of Clew Bay. See 

 ■pe&niAin mib. 



boc&l&n. ) Seneeio Jacobaea Linne and 



b. buroe. ) S. aquaticus Huds. Common Ragwort and Marsh Ragwort. — ■ 

 This nameboc&b&n, with or without the adjectival aflix buroe (yellow) is 

 universal in Clare Island and on the greater part of the mainland shores 

 of Clew Bay, and is widespread in Ireland in one or other of its variant 

 forms. The formbuo.c&t<sn is used at Mulranny, and this with or without 

 the aflix buroe is the prevalent form in Kerry, in Connemara, and in 

 Donegal; in Louth (Omeath) I have found the variants bu&bc&n and 

 bu&tcep<kn. The form Bollan is used in the Isle of Man. 



A well-known fairy plant, doing duty in Irish legend for the witches' 

 broomstick and as a mark for buried gold. The name is perhaps connected 

 with bua.ca.1Lt (cowboy), the plant being the commonest pasture weed 

 in all Ireland. See bojtup 



Ooua.La.11 ba.n, White Bohalawn. Artemisia vulgaris Linne, Mugwort, Worm- 

 wood. — A common name for this species in Clare Island, and apparently 

 widespread in Ireland. 



b|\a.ipce. Brassica alba Boissier and B. ca7npesfris Linne, White Mustard and 

 - ■ - • Wild Turnip. — Clare Island ; apparently a variant of p-pa.rr-ea.c-, the name 



