Turas Siar 317 - Pádraic Ó Gionnáin as Cill Ghallagáin, beannacht Dé lena anam: cúrsaí iascaireachta agus eacnamaíochta sa gceantar.
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Mháirtín caithfidh an tractor a bheith uilig le giom b a thabhairt dóbhtha mar a déarfá bin é bin é a bhíonns tá an talamh chomh lom anois ar ndóigh is nach bhfuil aon
Mháirtín, the tractor has to be all with a jump to give it to them, as you’d say, that’s it, that’s it, the ground is so bare now of course that there isn’t any.
Nach bhfuil aon dath tar éis mar a déarfá agus caithfidh tú vetáil i do mar a déarfá mine a thabhairt dó silage a thabhairt dóibh agus rud mar sin le coinneáil Béarla an bhfuil laghdú ar an méid caorach atá thart anois an bhfuil?
Is there no colour left, as you’d say, and you have to, as you’d say, give him meal, give them silage and things like that to keep them, is there a reduction in the number of sheep around now, is there?
Bhoil tá a Mháirtín tá laghdaíofa ansin iad. Tá cúpla bliain ó shin mar déarfá b'éigean tháinig deas doc ansin isteach tá a fhios agat agus b'éigean cúpla scór leathchéad trí scór agus mar sin a chur a chur chun bealaigh an dtuigeann tú.
Well, yes, Máirtín, they have been reduced there. It's a couple of years ago now, as you might say, there had to—a nice dock came in there, you know, and it was necessary to send off a couple of scores, fifty, sixty or so, you understand...
B'éigean agus tá siad ag dul ag déanamh tuilleadh a deir siad más fíor dóibh anois níl a fhios agam an bhfuil ann ach an bhfuil ach sin é an rud a deir siad agus tá na hóin fairsing faoi láthair bhoil tá tá tá ach gála an áit é seo a Mháirtín anois le teacht anuas tá sé ag dul ina chónaí.
They had to and they are going to do more they say if what they say is true now I don't know if it is but that's what they say and the fools are plentiful at the moment well yes yes yes but this is a windy place now, Mairtín, coming down he is going to live here..
Obair mhór déanta anseo ar ndóigh leis an leis an gcreimeadh cósta seo a stopadh.
A lot of work done here of course to stop this coastal erosion.
Óh tá obair mhór déanta anseo a Mháirtín. Tá tá agus chaithfeá beagán a Mháirtín, bheadh cuid mhaith imithe leis an ngaoth aniar aduaidh anoir aneas sin a tháinig ansin taobh ó taobh ó dheas ansin. Bheadh cuid mhaith den stuif imithe mar a déarfá le cuid mhaith den talamh imithe bheadh sé gearrtha isteach go dtí an bóthar.
Oh, there’s great work done here, Máirtín. There is, there is, and you’d have to, Máirtín, a good bit would be gone with the wind from the northwest, from the southeast, that came then side by side from the south then. A good bit of the stuff would be gone, as you’d say, with a good bit of the land gone, it would be cut in as far as the road.