fellistrim
n.— «One thing dawned on me as I drove home from Kilkenny and it was this. There’s very little hurling in mountainy counties. The fields were lush and green with hardly a rush or a fellistrim.» —“Where I come from, we have only one use for hurleys” Irish Independent (Ireland) Sept. 2, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Rowan in Ottawa, Ontario, says her Irish mom used a puzzling word to indicate a sort of restless discontent not caused by anything in particular. It may be neamhchinnte, which means “uncertain” or “indecisive.” This is part...
Rose in Lebanon, Virginia recalls a phrase passed down from her great-grandmother: The night before the first day of school, parents would come into the children’s bedroom and say in a singsong voice: School butter, school butter. This...
Patrick Sammon of Greenspeak writes to say:
In the standard Irish to English dictionary by Niall Ó Donaill it appears under
“feileastram a wild iris, flag. ~ cumhra, sweet calamus. ~ dearg montbretia.”
It’s clearly a very old word, as its antecedent word existed in Old Irish. See OLD-IRISH-L. See also What The Irish Wore.