Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Irish) of women, a slattern; of men, a slovenly, lazy person; thus strealy adj.

1842		S. Lover Handy Andy 322: To marry a thrampin’ sthreel like that.
1907		G. Fitzmaurice ‘The Streel’ in Irish Weekly Indep. 2 Mar. (1970) 113: She was a streel, and like most streels was a born miser.
1907		J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act II: An ugly young streeler with a murderous gob on him.
1918		K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 129: Well, g’lang ou’er that, ye dirty long streel of a lamp-post, yeh!
1920		S. O’Kelly Leprechaun of Kilmeen 74: I suppose his streel of a wife [...] couldn’t be trusting him with it or else he drank it all, the murdering wastrel.
1936		(con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 137: There’s no need to be in a flurry over that streel. She’ll be setting herself up somewhere on the strength of my training.
1943		(con. 1860s) G.A. Little Malachi Horan Remembers 73: He was married to a long streel of a woman, with black hair about her face like a horse’s mane, and never a comb in it from one gale-day to another.
1969		T. Murphy A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene i: Heeding that hussy of a clotty of a plótha of a streeleen.
1995		Irish Times 4 Dec. n.p.: A long strealy lad by the name of Finn [...] went to take a 70 [BS].