scraws

The byre we built was not very big, and very dark, but it was cosy, too, under the crooked joists, and covered with heather scraws and thatch.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

I give you the stage as the shakiest of all scraws.

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

_Second Hag: _ He not to come ere evening, the woman that is dead must go to her burying without one to follow her, or any friend at all to flatten the green scraws above her head.

New Irish Comedies Lady Gregory 1892

What would signify anything might be wrote about you, and the green scraws being over your head?

New Irish Comedies Lady Gregory 1892

_Darby: _ "Little he'd think of you," she'd say; "you without body and puny, not fit to lift scraws from off the field, and Timothy bringing in profit to his mother's hand, and earning prizes and rewards."

New Irish Comedies Lady Gregory 1892

You must go down where it is growing on the scraws, and pull it with three pulls; and mind would the wind change when you are pulling it, or your head will be gone.

Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892

Failing to find the old woman, he postponed his quest for the present and stayed talking to Theresa, who, as it happened, was at home; and then he stopped again outside to help Hugh McInerney by handing him up some rolls of green-sodded scraws and slippery bundles of rushes.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

There lies just opposite the O'Beirnes 'front door a low turf bank, gently sloping, and mostly clothed with short, fine grass, but liable to be cut into brown squares, if sods are wanted for roofing a shed, or for spreading a green layer of scraws under new thatch.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

Crackton's park, an 'afther that sure he has to cut scraws on the

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

Whilst one party cut the scraws, another bound the _couples and bauks_* and a third cut as many green branches as were sufficient to wattle it.

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831