Names for "wrasse" in your area

[corbyeire]

ive heard of Balla in mayo
gunner in conamara
and rockfish

what are they called round your way?

[eyesreilly]

Wrasse

[roooster]

in ballycotton the fishermen call them 'block' and i even use the name at times & people dont have a clue what im talking about,must ask one of the older fishermen sum day & see where the name came from

[Eddiewamblambbam]

wrasse down my way too

haven heard any slang for them as of yet, it'll probably reach its way over from the west soon enough

[cathalger]

Rock Mourin or just Mourin in the middle glens of Antrim and south of Garron point people seem to prefer the name Bavan. Not sure if Bavan originates in Ireland or Scotland but Mourin is Irish because it was originally Moirin.

Whats the current Irish for wrasse??????

Edit- my spelling of that is probably misleading and dodgy, Moaran or Moran is probably more reliable. Closer,- I'd love to know of it being used for wrasse somewhere other than here. Did see the name written as Moirin in a very old book once which I havent been able to trace but am trying to.

[cathalger]

in ballycotton the fishermen call them 'block' and i even use the name at times & people dont have a clue what im talking about,must ask one of the older fishermen sum day & see where the name came from

Interesting Rooster, some people around here call coalfish 'blockan'. Though Glashin is much more widely used. Had to laugh when I heard a man describe large shoal coley as 'gaylords'. Then I looked up regional names for coley online and found the name 'Greylaird' in a list of something like 30 names for them.

[donal domeney]

in ballycotton the fishermen call them 'block' and i even use the name at times & people dont have a clue what im talking about,must ask one of the older fishermen sum day & see where the name came from

The spelling of the word is Ballach, taken from the Irish pronunciation.
I've herd then been call Connors or Stont Connors

[cathald]

I've heard some of the old folk call them cudgin up here
coalie are called glashion and pollock are called shelock

[Etihad]

Up here I have heard older one's refer to them as bavan, coalfish are always called blocken

[JOHN1]

An old Dunlaoghaire name for them is Rock Bream

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[JimC]

An old Dunlaoghaire name for them is Rock Bream

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[JimC]

Did a quick search from a few years back

http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... ach#p44525

[mackfish]

Wrasse is all I hear...

But I e heard folk call immature pollock 'glassen', not sure of the spelling!

Mack

[cathalger]

Up here I have heard older one's refer to them as bavan, coalfish are always called blocken

Etihad folk seem to recognise blockan for coleys the whole way from Larne to Portstewart but I honestly didnt hear it until I was about 20. We were told glashin for coley and Lythe for pollack. The names are still more used locally than the english common names, which is great. Wrasse were rock mourins or mourans. Pronunciations varied a bit because it wasnt a written word and my spelling is only an attempt at the sound.I like the name Bavan also. Didnt hear that til I was in my 30s and it was Carnlough and Glenarm people using it.

Also chatted to a Co Down man from near Ardglass who used blockan for coley.

[Holeopen]

In the coastal areas between Dungarven and Galway including my own area near Kinsale they are called Ballach by thre older people, Conor in some areas as well. Small W.Pollock were/are called Biardán and small Black Pollock called Crothóg, this name is very common in minor coastal placenames. Bull Huss are known to the older generation as Cailleach Breach meaning 'speckled hag'.

[roooster]

to go with the wrasse(block),they call a coalfish here a 'black nag',a small cod gets the name 'tamling' & dogfish is know as a 'shameie sheen'......

[rushnaldo]

Known as buyins as if the l's were silent in Donegal

[Bluezulu49]

The colloquial name for wrasse in Dun Laoghaire in the early 1960's was as John1 said Rock Bream.

I never heard or saw the word wrasse used until I acquired a copy of the Observer's Book of Sea Fishes in about 1966.

Is it possible that they were called Rock Bream to differentiate them from the other sea bream species which are of a similar shape and which were caught in the area for a few years post 1945? - ( until they were fished out after making a comeback during the war).

Some things never change!

[fishmad]

Known as buyins as if the l's were silent in Donegal

aye we do!