Aingle na dTrí Sciathán

Ó, bhail, mhoithigh mé go minic go bhfeicthí iad, go mbíodh siad ina gcineál aingle -

oh, well, I often heard that they would be seen, that they used to be sort of angels -

Na haingle a thugtaí orthu

Angles is what they were called [lit: given]

Agus níl ‘fhios agam ab shin í an fhírinne nó nach í ach

And I don’t know if that’s true or not but...

bhí sé ráite go bhfeicthí iad ar mhodh ar bith.

it's said they were anyway.

Agus mhoithigh mé fear amháin ag insean scéal faoi—seanfhear a bhí ann.

And I heard one man, telling a story about it - an old man it was.

D'éirigh sé ar maidin, deireadh oíche

he got up in the morning, very early [lit: the end of the night]

ní raibh aon am an uair sin le fáil, uaireadóir ar bith, ar ndóiche,

the time wasn't available, there were no watches, like

ní raibh cineál am ar bith ann ach an ghrian agus an ghealach

there was no kind of time at all, except the sun and the moon

ach d'éirigh sé deireadh oíche

but he got up at first light

agus cér bith seort uisce broghach a bhí fágtha ag bean an ti i mbuicéad in íochtar an cisteanadh thíos,

and whatever sort of dirty water that was left by the woman of the house in a bucket in the lower end of the kitchen below

rug sé ar an mbuicéad uisce bhroghach sin

he grabbed [lit: on] the bucket of dirty water there agus

d’oscail sé an doras agus chaith sé amach ar an gcnoc é.

he opened the door and he threw it out onto the hillside

Agus ar áit na bonn nuair a chaith sé amach an t-uisce ins an doras

And the moment he threw the water out the door,

d’éirigh an tslua meáin pháistí

up rose a host of ‘mid children’ (children between worlds)

agus thosaigh siad ag gártháil.

and started shouting