Potatoes - Fataí
Áirí - a potato field that has been harvested
a'basladh – bastling
a'críochadh - marking out
Lán – light, fine clay
Lánadh - moulded
Obair baslaidh – setting potatoes in ridges
Sioscadh – mark, score
Púirín - a V-shaped pit with two stones lining it, for planting potatoes Púiríní - (plural)
Púirín poll fataí - a clay V-shaped pit for potatoes
Poll - hole, pit
Clais – big, wide drill for potatoes Claiseannaí – big, wide drills for potatoes
Scoilteán - split
Díogaí – furrow, trench Díograchaí - furrows
Scraith - scraw, sod Scraithí - scraws
Scíobán – large clump of soil Scíobáin - large clumps of of soil
Gruaighe – bank of soil Gruaigheantaí – banks of soil
Gruaigheantaí na iomaireachaí - banked soil of the potato ridges
Iomaireachaí – ridges
Biathú – fertilising
Aicíd – potato blight
Thigeadh an aicíd - the blight would fall
Cloch gorm – bluestone (to keep blight at bay)
Siúl - eye (on a potato)
Cloigíní – eyes on a potato
Dúbhachain – a black potato (from blight)
Fataí gréine – sunburnt potatoes
Bachlóg – sprout on a potato
Locadh – just failed
Loic – fail, waste away
Lofadh sé – it would rot
Tools for digging potatoes
Spáid - spade