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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Tá sé sceite le 12 bhliain.
It is expired by 12 years.
Sin an méid sin an méid mór can leat suas é.
That’s it, that’s the big amount, sing it up..
Óh muise a chuirfeá bhí sé ró againn. Bhí sé ródhon alt anois a bhí taobh thíos de ansin. Bhí an áit a raibh an teach tithe cónaithe acu. Bhí mé féin thíos go minic ansin an uair sin bhí muid ina leads óga agus ghabhfadh muid síos ach anois ghabhfá síos anois i mbeadh mbeadh sé réasca a dhul síos anois bheadh sé isteach ar 'chaon taobh.
Oh well, you would, it was too much for us. It was too steep a slope now that was down there then. It was the place where they had the dwelling house. I myself was down there often then when we were young lads and we would go down, but now if you went down now it would be slippery to go down now, it would be in on both sides...
Agus bhí tú ag insint dhom faoi Dún Chaocháin agus Dún Ceartán.
And you were telling me about Dún Chaocháin and Dún Ceartán.
Muise bhí sé sin ráite ach bhí mé ag leathnú amach go mb'fhéidir píosa a bhí déanta suas ach b'fhéidir nár bheannacht dhéanadh daoiní rud aisteach an uair sin.
Well, that was said but I was spreading out that maybe it was a piece that was made up but maybe it wasn't a blessing people would do something strange at that time..
Nach raibh nach raibh an taobh seo dubh caocháin?
Wasn't this side black with midges?
Ach pota amháin agus ní raibh ceann ar bith ann i Dún Cartáin.
But only one pot and there wasn’t any at all in Dún Cartáin.
Agus nuair a bhíonns na fataí?
And when are the potatoes?
Bruite agus tógtha agus cuir amach ar an mBlascaod as an fear eile amach ón doras agus chaillfeadh sé an pota, an gleann, an ghad.
Bruised and battered and put out on the Blasket by the other man out the door and he would lose the pot, the glen, the rod...
Tá sé sin cuid mhaith meas ariamh agus cuid mhaith den mhíle.
That is quite a lot of respect always and quite a lot of the mile.