Topic: Mournes (Read 8459 times)

Bic · « **on:** August 30, 2010 »

....well fantistic day had ...cheers for the suggestions...Bloody Bridge Car Park empty...sun was shining..though a bit claggy up top of Donard....look forward to more on my return in New Year......

ChuckMcB · « **Reply #1 on:** August 30, 2010 »

Good stuff...so did you do the loop along the road or the Bloody Bridge up&down?

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look forward to more on my return in New Year

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RedLeader · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2010 »

Sounds like a top day out. What does claggy mean?

suspectmonkey · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2010 »

Quote from: J on August 31, 2010

What does claggy mean?

Funny you should ask that because in the last week I've come across the words "clagged" and "claggy" for the first time! I'm reading Hamish's Mountain Walk (first dude to do a continuous circuit of all the Munros) at the moment and he used the word. It seems to be a word we should have adopted by now because as far as I can gather it describes the Mournes 9/10 trips i.e. clouded in like Binnian on Sunday morning!

ChuckMcB · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2010 »

While I was going with the muddy/sticky definition of the word:

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claggy
• adjective Brit. dialect tending to form clots; sticky: claggy mud.  
— origin late 16th cent.: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Danish klag ‘sticky mud’

But in context it would have to be pretty bad for the track up the side of Donard to get muddy, so you could well be right with the foggy/cloudy angle...Let's see if Bic explains....

suspectmonkey · « **Reply #5 on:** September 01, 2010 »

Quote from: Chuck on August 31, 2010

While I was going with the muddy/sticky definition of the word

But in context it would have to be pretty bad for the track up the side of Donard to get muddy, so you could well be right with the foggy/cloudy angle...Let's see if Bic explains....

I went with the Wiktionary definition:

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Noun - clag

1. A glue or paste made from starch.
2. Low cloud, fog or smog.
3. (Railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a diesel locomotive or multiple unit.

Also came across these references:

1993: Harry Furniss, Memoirs - One: The Flying Game "The sky was thick with dirty gray clag"
2001: Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman
This programme included practice interceptions, simulator training, day flying, night flying, clag flying -- in addition to... (a footnote states that clag flying was Air Force slang for foul weather flying.)
2004: David A Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography "We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity" (a footnote defines clag as low cloud cover)

Interestingly it would appear that from Scottish Gaelic/Old Irish the word "clag" means to cry or sound, or bell. Now I'm making serious assumptions, but I'm thinking perhaps the origin of using "clag" as slang for cloudy/foggy has something to do with bells or fog horns in poor conditions?

Any way, link here for Wiktionary. Sorry for the thread hijack

Bic · « **Reply #6 on:** September 01, 2010 »

....yes, done the loop that was suggested and it was as described... in that ...towards Maggies Leap a sign to suggest that you cannot go down the lane, though tbh not well placed, after having walked along the forest path you are more or less committed , anyhow i moved a piece of fencing and cracked on, the road again.... was as suggested and feckin dodgy with the traffic so will not be on that part of the route again.........lol......with regards to claggy.... thats all i have ever known it as.....low cloud/hill fog/mist....

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