In sheep, it's a pigment marking for ownership or separation. Like American cattle branding. In humans, careworn: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering. In literature, it often means that an older woman's complexion was ruined by cosmetics of dubious quality. Kitty On 10/25/10 12:11 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mary, > > Would you please tell me what 'raddled' means? I've never heard of it > before and I was just over in Ireland the past two weeks and never heard that > word at that time. Thanks so much. > > Kathleen~CT. > > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:30:55 +0100 > From: marysimpson <[email protected]> > Subject: [IRL-KERRY] "Lost in the mists....." > > Thank you Ray, for the great clip from the New York Times. How can you > miss the Reeks??? > > And I laughed when I read the bit about the sheep with the red & blue > markings - hasn't he heard about raddled? > But great stuff. > Mary > _______________ > --------------- > > Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message. > > To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message. > > To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish > genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide > audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message