teoun

Yola

Noun

teoun

1. Alternative form of teoune
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 80:

     Yole teoun.

     Old town.

   • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 9.

     When Mr. Poole wrote his Gazetteer about 1823, the Norrises were still dwelling on their forefathers' teoun.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 80