Turas Siar 286 - Riocard Bairéad, File.

Is féidir linn eolas éigin a chur le chéile faoi Rocard Bairéad.

We can put together some information about Rocard Bairéad.

Am éigin timpeall na bliana seacht gcéad déag agus daichead a rugadh é.

He was born sometime around the year seventeen forty.

In iarthuaisceart Chontae Mhaigh Eo i Leithinis an Mhuirthead.

In the northwest of County Mayo on the Mullet Peninsula.

Ar an mbaile fearainn a dtugtar a bheairic air.

On the townland called his barracks.

Is ann a bhí cónaí air go dtí go raibh sé meánaosta.

It was there he lived until he was middle-aged.

Bhí Rocad Bairéad thart ar chúig throigh, ocht n-orlach ar airde.

Rocad Bairéad was about five feet, eight inches in height.

Agus bhí gruaig fhian air.

And he had wild hair.

Fear cuideachtúil gnaíúil sportúil a bhí ann.

He was a sociable, pleasant, sporty man.

Deir Patrick Lynch a thug cuairt air sa mbliain ocht gcéad déag agus a dó:

Patrick Lynch, who visited him in the year eighteen hundred and two, says:

Miste barret is set an lae, a Bherry, a griobal companion.

Miste Barret, the day is set, Bherry, a cheerful companion.

And ifount Tim exeding lis sivil.

And I found Tim exceeding his civil...

Phós Rocéad Bairéad faoi dhó.

Rocéad Bairéad married twice.

Ba í Neansaí Tollet.

It was Neansaí Tollet..

An chéad bhean

The first woman.

Ní raibh athair ná gaolta Neansaí sásta go bpósfaidís agus bhí ar a lánúin éalú le chéile as teach damhsa agus pósadh i ngan fhios.

Neansaí's father nor relatives were not happy that they would marry and the couple had to elope together from a dance hall and marry in secret.