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200 synonyms for this word still in use in Connacht, such as, etc. Line 16. = “destroyed.”

Page 78, line 3. , a crime; is pronounced like quirrh. = a loy, or narrow spade.

Page 80, line 5. = “who owned the big house.” = who had in his possession the big house. Line 21. = house furniture. Line 26. , short for. Line 27. = “the same to you,” literally, “that it may be to you,” the constant response to a salutation in Connacht.

Page 84, line 22. = “without her knowing it,” pronounced like a gunyis dee. I do not see what the force of this is, but it is always used, and I have met it in MSS. of some antiquity.

Page 86, line 33. , pronounced, short for , “twelve men.” = a mean fellow.

Page 92, line 10. = a cart road.

Page 94, line 22. =, an uncommon form in Connacht now-a-days.

Page 66, line 13. another and very common form of.

Page 98, line 22. , i.e., ; the pronoun is, as the reader must have noticed, constantly left out in these stories, where it would be used in colloquial conversation.

Page 100, line 27. and ; are the ordinary forms of and  in Connacht.