Donnchadh Ó Baoill works with Údarás na Gaeltachta and is member of the Placename Committee of Ireland.

The island of the dead, where unbaptised children were buired as the water acted as a threshold to keep their souls from returning.

The smallest & most dangerous fish. Its name in Irish means The Wounder.

Grassland beside the sea, also maybe a burial place for children by water. Rowan planted to keep the evil spirits away.

A wave that turns back on itself. Also iomghaoth is a wind that turn backs and brushes you up in itself.

Storm Petral. Literarly means 'short oil', from its habit of drinking oil from surface of the sea above oily fish.

A tiny wave, or standing up ripple on water. Also to be stern of face, or stern, raised water.

An eddy. Literally, a wave that turns on itself. A place where trout hide out.

The Well of Fair Winds has a local tradition of draining water from the well to calm the ocean. Across the bay in Inis Murray a well was filled with water to calm the seas.

A submerged rock that is laid bare when tide was out. Some are never revealled, and these can founder a boat. They're known as Boilg a' bháite - submerged rocks that can drown.

This poem was compsed in 1830s about love for a wealthy, beautiful girl. The poet's son married an aunt of Eoghan's grandmother.

A new boat should never go to sea on Friday. A woman should never wash/comb her hair when her men are at sea. Fresh fish is never taken from home at night. You should take a drink when putting new nets to sea.

Cé is casta le cos briste? (Who's quickest with a broken leg?) The heather stalk, as the wind whips it across the land.

A smaller 1-inch hook for spillet fishing that used a lugworm or morsel of fish as bait. It was used as a method of conservation since smaller cod & ling couldn't bit the large hooks.

Raic is beach-combing. Cnuasach trá is coast gathering, whether seaweed, shellfish or salvage goods.

A fisherman must remove his cap & pray at the well in Teelin before fishing. He should also leave harbour sunwise.

Difference between ciseán, bascaed, cliabh, creel and pardán.

A fisherman would have to return home if he saw a red-headed woman on his way to sea.

Spillet baskets were oval and made of willow. From 1m to 1.4 metre in size. Shaped so they'd fit under your arm.

Description of the keel, the champfer, the ribs, the benches, the beams, the mast, the rowing beds, the sails, etc

Fishermen take ashes and soil from St John's Night bonfire on boat with them. Also holy water, a St Brigid's Cross & blessed cloth.

Herring basket made from cane, as it lasts longer than willow. Hazel & willow & heather used for lobster pots.

During the wars large amount of timber came ashore from deck cargo. First person to see it owns it. It was sawn & used for furniture.

A crann of herring is 7 or 8 stone of weight in a basket

The sails on a boat were referred to a suit of clothes. He quotes a poem from 1803.

Teelin has one well for cures & another that used to protect fishermen.

130 years ago his grandfather was caught in a bad storm off Malin Beg and only made it safely to shore because a fairy woman pulled their boat at great speed across the water.

After one's first week fishing, you earnings go to the Pota Dubh (black pot), where it is used to buy a drink for everyone.

Herring basket were filled until overflowing. A canny fisherman would knock some back into the boat while unloading the catch.

People were left to drown, in case the sea took the potential rescuer instead.

A basin-shaped, fishing basket for handling spillet line with 200 2-inch hooks. A herring is placed on each hook.

A retired fisherman, now teaches basket making. He's actively worked to help collect and map the placename of Teelin.