Dictionary Entry

'Sea, deireann sé timpeall naoi míle siar ó dheas ó bhaile mór Bhéal an Mhuirthid, bhí roinnt de bhallaí na Seanchúirte ina seasamh ann le mo linn féin, adeir sé, ach deireann siad sin bhí dó nó trí de cheathrúnaí eile leis an amhrán, ach sílim nach raibh aon bhaint acu le seó cheart.

Yes, he says about nine miles southwest of the town of Belmullet, some of the walls of the Old Court were still standing there in my own time, he says, but they say there were two or three other quarters with the song, but I think they had nothing to do with the real show.