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bhí mé ann, ar laethanta saoire

I was there on holidays

b'fhéidir gur doiligh duine a fháil

maybe it was hard to get someone

Níos mó ná thig leis a freastail, corruair.

More than he can attend to, sometimes

Déanann sé deifir, le fios

he works fast, to be sure

tá an ceann is sine trí bliana déag

the oldest one is thirteen

uain

tá lot ar uain a cinn, there is a wound on the back of her head.

turachán

níl ann ach turachán, páiste (ná colapach) nach mbeith aon fhás faoi

túnaois

thug sé túnaois dó, a small beating, black-eye, perhaps (TmB); cf. Béaloideas, xvii, 257 (six lines from bottom): bhuail siad túnaois mhaith orthú, from Pádraig Mac Meanaman, An Claigeann, in aice le Baile Chruaich.

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