Turas Siar 376 - Pádraic S. Ó Murchú as an gCartúr agus Máirtín Mac Donnchadha, RnaG: púnáilte, basctha, ponntáin, giobóg, "Na Trí . . . ".
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Mentioned in the recording title as a speaker from an gCartúr, a location in the Tourmakeady region.
Mentioned in the recording title as a speaker, but no specific location is given in the transcript.
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Bhíodh siad ag rá nach raibh sé ceart a bheith dá ól.
They used to say that it wasn't right to be drinking.
Agus nach bhoil nach raibh sé ceart ar chor ar bith a bheith ag ól bainne nuair a bheith ag bua faoi chair ná aimsir ag bua faoi chairr.
And isn’t it true that it wasn’t right at all to be drinking milk when winning under carts or at times winning under carts...
Mionbheach feoil chearc agus bainne bó gamhnaí anois ghlaoigh bean orainn isteach orainn agus chuir sí an cheist agam ní raibh sí sásta an freagra a thabhairt dúinn ach by dad bhí an freagra faighte agam féin cheana cheana féin na trí na trí súile is grinne amuigh nó na trí súile is géire amuigh.
A small oath: chicken meat and calf’s milk. Now a woman called us in and she asked me the question. She wasn’t willing to give us the answer but, by dad, I had already gotten the answer myself already—the three, the three keenest eyes out there or the three sharpest eyes out there.
Súil saoire ar chloch agus súil na caillí ar bhean a mic.
A holiday eye on a stone and the hag's eye on her son's wife.
Tá cúpla leagan, tá cúpla cineál leagan dhó sin ann déarfainn.
There are a couple of versions, there are a couple of kinds of versions of that I would say..
Súil an chailín óige ar an gcrá geal i lár an aonaigh tá rud eicínt den tsórt sin meascán den tsórt sin ann.
The young girl's eye on the bright torment in the middle of the fair, there is something of that sort, a mixture of that sort there...
Tá leagan áirithe ag 'chuile
Everyone has a particular version.
Tá leagan áirithe ina chuile ina chuile cheantar dhó sin.
There is a certain version of it in every area for that.
Bhí em fan go bhfeicfidh mé bhí mé ag cuimhneamh rud eicínt eile ansin anois.
I was waiting to see, I was thinking of something else there now..