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Tá sé seo fiche agus a cuig bliain ó shin,

This is twenty-five years ago,

(Ar seisean), Tá cúig phunta, cúig mhíle dhéag de phuntaí de thíocht isteach aici sa bhliain.

He said, "She has five pounds, fifteen thousand pounds of income per year".

Chuir siad cúig phunta.

They bet five pounds.

ceathrair, trúir gasúir agus gearr-chaile

four, three boys and a girl-een

dhá bhliain déag ó shin

twelve years ago

fiche míle thart ar an teach

twenty miles around the house

tá an ceann is sine trí bliana déag

the oldest one is thirteen

tá cúigear comhdháil ar scoil

five are attending school

in aice le trí scóir

nearly sixty (three twenties)

triúr

tá siad triúr Gallachúraí ann, there are three of those Gallaghers (EOM); muid triúr, the three of us (ML). Cf. libh-se ceathar, with the four of you (ML).

dóghín

an dóghín, the little miserable two (of diamonds), dó + ín.

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

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