Clagfharraige
A lumpy, choppy sea with westerly winds when the tide was going out and waves rushing in. The boat gets buffeted from both sides.
Calm Leaidí
A very smooth sea, as level as a plate. Leaidí is a term of endearment, meaning boyo or fellow, because a calm sea is so rare it’s regarded with affection.
Fuaimeanna oíche cois trá
Mysterious sounds on the shore at night can be young seals, which sound eerily like babies.
Éisc difriúla
Cnúdán (gurnet), Ballachaí (rockfish/wrasse) Mangachaí (pollock), Ronnacha (mackerel).
Tarraingt an fharraige
A swell on the shore which drags the tide back and forth agitatedly. It foretold a storm up to a week in advance.
Ábhach
A lobster’s hideaway, often in a rocky patch with sand around it and when you see the sand washed out from the rocks underneath you know there’s one inside.
Racálach
Cast-up seaweed thrown up on the shore after a big tide or a gale. It's used for fertiliser.
Bráite/Borráite
A reef, or rocky part of the sea ideal for fishing, with kelp, coirleach (strapwrack) and ríseach (sea-thong) growing on it.
Troid gliomaigh
A fight between lobster and eels. Who wins?
Gaoithe iascaireachta
The winds that are good, and bad, for fishing.
Muirín
How to collect scallops in winter with a 20-ft pole.
Treo na Gaoithe
The sound and direction from which a wind blew foretold the weather.
Focail Farraige & Sea Terms - An Cheathrú Rua, Co na Gaillimhe(Carraroe, Co Galway)