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Aran/Connemara word for 'goat'?

Qualitymark · 2013-02-22 18:02:55

I'm transcribing some letters from my grandparents in the 1900s; my grandfather is writing to my uncle (then 2), and telling him a silly story about a goat, I assume - a horned animal, anyway. He's going between Irish and English; the word (in his terrible, terrible handwriting) looks like gurr or gunn or garru or…

22-02-2013 6:02pm

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I'm transcribing some letters from my grandparents in the 1900s; my grandfather is writing to my uncle (then 2), and telling him a silly story about a goat, I assume - a horned animal, anyway. He's going between Irish and English; the word (in his terrible, terrible handwriting) looks like gurr or gunn or garru or something like that. Is there an old dialect word?

Of course it might also be Tipperary English-language dialect; it doesn't seem to be written in the old script, which he normally used when using Irish...

Ooops, just realised what this is - it's actually "grrrr", which must have been the family baby-word for a goat, or a fierce animal. Sorry, tried to delete the post, but this forum doesn't seem to have the facility to do so.

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