Dictionary Entry

Chaithfeá dhá dhá shúil a chur air 'Sea agus chaithfeá ceangal na srungán ansin a chur thríd an dá shúil agus a tharraingt ar bhealach áirithe. Ní fhéadfá a chur síos díreach idir péire, chaithfí é a chur síos ar an gceann taobh amuigh agus chaithfeá síos ar an dara ceann ar an taobh istigh agus tharraingeofá lena chéile ansin agus thiocfá sruthán le chéile arís mar a bhí sé sular chuir tú an snim air 'Sea an dtuigeann tú agus cé le haghaidh í a n-úsáidtí snaidhm na béis bhoil is dóigh gan idir déarfaidh mé go raibh leigheas againn le haghaidh gnaithe pé siobail a bhíodh ar bheithígh fadó an dtuigeann bhídís ag déanamh amach go mbíodh pé siobair ar bheithígh.

You would have to put two eyes on it. Yes, and you would have to put the binding cord through the two eyes and pull it in a certain way. You couldn't put it down directly between a pair, it would have to be put down on the outside one and you would have to put it down on the second one on the inside and then you would pull them together and you would get a stream together again as it was before you put the knot on it. Yes, do you understand, and as for what it was used for, the knot of the "béis bhoil" (probably a specific type of knot), I suppose, well, I'll say that we had a cure for whatever trouble was on cattle long ago, you understand, they used to reckon that whatever trouble was on cattle...