Turas Siar 425 - Micheál Mac Graith as Cill Ghallagáin, go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam, faoi agallamh ag Caitlín Ní Chonghóile as Ceathrú na gCloch.
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Micheál Mac Graith is identified in the title as being from Cill Ghallagáin, a part of the Erris region. The use of local dialect markers and his age group is inferred from the context of the conversation.
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Siad ag iarraidh iad iascaireacht ab ea?
Were they wanting them fishing?
Bhí siad ag iascaireacht ag iascach iasc agus is dóigh bhí an t-uisce ar a ar an mbanc seo iad an uair sin bheag aithneog.
They were fishing, catching fish, and I suppose the water was on this bank for them then, little did they know.
Bhí siad bhí scadán chomh maith ag tíocht isteach ach ba t-uisce is mó a bhí ann ina dhiaidh bhí siad sa ngeimhreadh anyways agus murlais.
They were, there were herring as well coming in but it was mostly water after that, they were in the winter anyway and mullet...
Ach ligfidh siad isteach ag an Roinn anseo.
But they will let (them) in at the Department here..
Agus bhí siad stór sin atá ite agus tá an cloigeann imithe anois dhá
And they were that store which is eaten and the skull is gone now too.
Bhí siad ag soiliú na mBurlos ansin.
They were lighting the Burlos there.
Go han-mhinic bhí níos mó ann ná a bhí siad in ann.
Very often there was more than they could manage.
Oibriú an fhearthaibh agus chuirtí go portach chlóir cuid acu.
The operation of the implements and some of them used to be brought to the turf bog.
Bhí ba leis an stuaimh a bhí thíos ansin.
It belonged to the calm that was down there..