a female of ill repute e.g."ye may wash yer hands before ye sit down to eat that plate o' champ, especially seein' you've just come home from seeing that strumpet" or"that Charlotte Church strumpet"
The Foundary was a factory in Waterford where everyone's grandfather used to work. It was located down by the kay river. They used to pronounce it in this way due to the peculiar gutteral r sound of the old Waterford accent.