What would you call a bastable as gaeilge, le bhur dtoil?

Hi Franc. I've never heard the word before. It's not in any of my English or French dictionaries and Google hasn't helped me.

I’ve never heard of it before, either.

UrbanDictionary gives this definition:


I don’t quite see the relation to cooking here, though … :P


Edit: This site gives a more relevant definition:



I’ve no idea what that would be in Irish …

I would guess that (for whatever reason) this pot is named after the family name Bastable. There might not be an Irish word for it at all.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

Well if you look at 'Irish Rural Interiors in Art' by Claudia Kinmouth (on Google Books) it's there - apparently the name comes from the town in the (English) West Country which was known for producing cooking pots. As it was so widely used in Ireland for making stew or cooking soda bread, I feel sure that there must be an equivalent term for it in Irish.

Sin pota. Ní heol dom go bhfuil ainm faoi leith aige.

I never heard the English word.

But that is called a "bácús" (not sure of spelling)
Every Conamara home had one in the old days. To cook anything, but especially bread and patatoes over an open fire.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Here's the context - on another forum there's a French lady trying to understand and translate into French a book called 'In Ireland long ago' who's asking for help.
- "portions of the fire could be moved about the hearth, and often there were three or four different fires at work, the main one being under the big pot, a smaller one baking a bastable of bread, the teapot sitting on a third and a fourth heating a flat-iron. As to cooking, most of the food was boiled, whether it was porridge or meat or potatoes or vegetables, although the bastable or pot-oven could bake a joint or a fowl to the taste of an epicure, and there was always the frying pan."
So a bastable was not only the pot but a certain quantity it would seem - and looking at the various visual references I've found, there were quite a few different pots on the fire. I've already mentioned the book Irish Rural Interiors in Art by Claudia Kinmonth and there's -
http://www.europeancuisines.com/General ... sh-recipes.
She also asked me about wheel-bellows and how the hearth was ventilated by under-floor vents - for which I'm sure there must be words in Irish.

In case you missed it, Franc, Bríd gave you bácús above.

FGB describes a bácús as a "pot-oven" (in sense 2, sense 1 is "bakehouse").

It sounds a lot like a "Dutch oven".

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Ceart go leor - bácús it is.