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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Agus bhí an eascann suas le ceithre troithe agus cúig troithe ar fad.
And the eel was up to four feet and five feet in length.
Bhuail siad isteach ceathair nó cúig eascain agus bhí faitíos.
They brought in four or five eels and there was fear..
Muintir na háite seo a raibh mé in Eascann ná cineál Doire siar ná Mhuircin Láimhí.
The people of this place where I was in Eascann are a kind of Doire to the west of Mhuircin Láimhí.
Agus ní raibh siad in ann dubhán a bhaint as a gcuid b'éigeant iontu.
And they were not able to remove the hook from them, it had to stay in them.
Dúirt an Scotchman go dtí an gheimhridh freagra an gheimhridh seo, adeir sé.
The Scotchman said until the winter, the answer of this winter, he says..
Agus suígí anseo máta ní bheidh mise i bhfad dá nglanóg chuaigh sé siar.
And sit here mate, I won’t be long if they clean it, he went back..
An áit a raibh siad dhá chéad dubhán acu.
The place where they had two hundred hooks.