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cleiteach
tá an garla cleiteach ar a' gcirc, the hen is in her pen-feathers
cleas
ní rabh cor ná cleas as, (the boy) was very quiet and well conducted in a strange house
cabhail
bhí an teach i n-oirde cabhlach agam, sidewall high
bánú
bhí an t-oileán le bánú .i. na daoine le n-a thréiscint, to be evacuated.
cnuas
a crowd (at hay-making)
caróg
a small species of seagull, most likely the black-headed gull. There were big numbers of carógs on the island of Moyinnish (?) in Clew Bay where limestone was got to build Inishkea school
cabhsae
an old stony bare place
bréan-lóib
black rotten bog matter under blown sand at sea-edge. The slip (céibh) should have been built on rocks, but instead it was built on the bréanlóib, consequently had no proper foundation and did not last.
ar chúl na tine
the back of the fire
Tá an Rí curtha, soir ag an mballa sin, soir
The king is buried over to the east, at that wall there
sna áit ina bhfuil na clocha geala
in the the place where there are the bright stones
Níl an cuimhniú dhomsa, ar an chéad doine a curthú ann
I don't recall the first person to be buried here
'bhfuil morán daoine, chur anseo?
Are many people buried here?
tá siad curtha, i bhFáil Mór
they are buried in Falmore
An raibh sibh gar don trá ag an am sin?
Were you near the shore at that time?