Clare Island Survey — Gaelic Plant and Animal Names. 4 21 



Sc&igin. Buccinum imdatum Linne, Common Whelk. — Used at Belelare, 

 Clew Bay. See "P&ocau i&|u\irm. 



Ueinne jje&l&in. JYoclihwa miliaris. — Clare Island. This expression, which 

 perhaps may be a general term for phosphorescence rather than a definite 

 name for the animal producing it, Mr. Praeger found in use amongst the 

 Clare Island fishermen for the brilliant light-flashes in the wake of a 

 boat, usually due to the animalcule, Noctiluea. In that wonderful farrago of 

 imaginative medicine, Keogh's " Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica," " Tinny 

 Gallane," is entered as the Gaelic name for the Glow-worm. The true 

 Glow-worm is not Irish, but we have in Ireland a luminous centipede, 

 Linotaenia crassipes, C. Koch, and this is probably Keogh's Glow-worm. 



(5.) Zand Animals : Birds, Insects, and, Mammals. 



btnueoj lea-n^. Yellow Meadow [Bird]. Embcriza citrinella Linne, Yellow- 

 hammer. — Clare Island. 



C1&H05. Calathus cistdoides and its allies. — A general name in Clare Island 

 and round Clew Bay for this narrow black beetle, which is common 

 under stones. — See Notes C. and D. 



CA-|\6j;. Pyrrkocorax yraculus Linne, The Chough. — Clare Island, where the 

 bird breeds in many places. Probably what is known to philologers as 

 an onomatopaeic word, imitative of the note of the bird. 



Ca|\05 bAn. White Caurogue. Gorvus comix Linne, Hooded Crow. — Clare 

 Island. 



C116.C. Cuculus canorusJJai\\&, Cuckoo. — Clare Island. 



T)&p^ -o&ot. ) Applied in Clare Island to two species, Ocypus olens, a common 



"Oe&^j ■o&ol. ) black beetle or chafer, and Lithobius forficatus, a red-brown 

 centipede. The black ■o&h'H.n -o^ol, known in English dialect as the 

 Devil's Coach-horse, is an object of superstitious aversion in Clare 

 Island, as it is in Ireland generally. It is supposed to carry a virulent 

 poison in its pointed tail, which it erects in a threatening manner when 

 molested. " There's a black one and a red one too, because it's just the 

 same moral," I was told by an islander who identified the centipede as 

 the " red one," which was the same " moral " (model) as the black one, 

 though to the uninitiated scientific observer they are utterly different in 

 character. The beetle and the centipede, in fact, agree in nothing but 

 their generally uncanny and vicious aspect. It is difficult to fix the 

 precise form of the first part of the Gaelic name as current in the Clew 

 Bay area. It appears to fluctuate between xxsp, -o&]»&, and ■oea.pg. — 

 See Note D. 



*Oe<>^5 g&bloj, Red Fork ? Forficula auricularia, Earwig. — Clare Island. 

 The second component of the name appeared to be sounded as dhowlogue 



