Dictionary Entry

Lá ar bith eile i gCiarraí Rotha atá mé rotha rotha agus bhí sé ansin leis na caoirigh aréir anois agus bhí rópa mór fada agam air agus níl aon áit ar cheart dó a bheith anois mar b'fhéidir a ndeachaigh sé thart ansin agus go ndeachaigh sé le halta thiar ansin chaithfidh mé a dhul siar nuair a bhéas an lá mara amuigh go bhfeicfidh mé siar sna carraigeacha go bhfeicfidh mé an bhfaighidh mé tite é agus inis é seo dhom ar leaid siúlach é an rotha ab ea á sea an tráth seo an bhliain an mbíonn tú mná an chaoirigh déarfaidh tú a Mháirtín beidh sé ag siúlóid i gcónaí tá a fhios agat siúlach seo é an séasúr anois seo é an séasúr rothar na caoirigh suas go dtí go dtí an cúigiú lá déag de mhí na Nollag go dtí ní hé mar a déarfá ach seo é an séasúr anois an mhí seo anseo.

Any other day in Kerry, I am cycling a bicycle and he was there with the sheep last night now and I had a big long rope on him and there’s no place he should be now because maybe he went around there and went with a flock west there, I’ll have to go back when the day is out at sea to see back in the rocks to see if I’ll find him fallen and tell me this, is he a wandering lad, the bicycle, is he, yes, this time of year, do you keep the sheep’s women, you’ll say, “Máirtín, he’ll always be wandering, you know, a wanderer, this is the season now, this is the season of the sheep’s bicycle up until the fifteenth day of December, until, not as you’d say, but this is the season now, this month here…”