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Bhí conaí ar an oileáin seo, i bhfad roimhe cuimhne sínseara na bhfear seo.

There were people living on the island long before the ancestors of these men

fiche míle thart ar an teach

twenty miles around the house

agus gabh an coileach suas, mullach an tigh, taobh amuigh

and the rooster went up, on top of the house, outside

agus chuir as siar, shroich siad

and as they reached another bit further west

bhuel, chuid acu théanns go Sasana

well, some of them go to England

uaigneach

áit uaigneach, a place full of ghosts

triomaigh

níor thriomaigh sé ar aon charraic ariamh (an foightheach), always in the water, never seen on land or on a rock (great northern diver)

tóin

tifí as tóin a chéilí, houses built one at the end of another

sceinn

used transitively: go scinfadh sí an Curach .i. go nglanfadh sí é, that she would sweep the Curragh, i. Polly, a racing mare from Erris

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