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Tá sé seo fiche agus a cuig bliain ó shin,
This is twenty-five years ago,
Speaker:
Pádraic Patchey Ó Raghallaigh
Owner:
Seosamh Ó Cathail
Translator:
Seosamh Ó Cathail
Quality:
good
(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.
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
seisear chlann aici
six children, she has
iníon amháin
one daughter
in aice le trí scóir
nearly sixty (three twenties)
uair
ar uair an dó dhéag, at twelve o' clock.
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
magpies
according to the number seen together at a time portend: 1, mí-á; 2, á; 3, socraoid; 4, pósadh
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