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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Bhí sábháil ghabhfadh ina soitheach.
There was a saving that would be in a vessel.
Cén áit an áit a bhí iad?
Where is the place they were?
Thíos ag an Rinn ag glanadh abhus ar an bhfair Play an áit a raibh an áit a raibh turnóga déanta aici.
Down at the Point cleaning over here on the fair Play the place where she had made burrows..
Faigh Sack, bhí fear amuigh i gCeathrú Thaidhg go déan Dia grásta isteach uirthi le blianta fada Pat Shier, Pádraig Ó Sí, agus ghabhfadh sé ar an Sacu.
Get Sack, there was a man out in Ceathrú Thaidhg, may God have mercy on her, for many years Pat Shier, Pádraig Ó Sí, and he would go to the Sack.
B'fhéidir trí seachtainí roimhe sin agus líonta iad.
Maybe three weeks before that and they were full.
Agus níl aon t-iasachaí b'fhéidir buine sé nó seacht gclocha meáchain iontu agus ansin ní raibh aon bhealach in ann mharaíodh anseo an uair sin.
And there are no borrowers, maybe six or seven stone in weight among them, and then there was no way they could be killed here at that time.
Thugtaí ón Roinn anseo go béalú siad iad i gcoireach.
It was said by the Department here that they would be fed in a cauldron.
Amach ag an doc i mbéal an mhuise iad.
Out at the dock at the mouth of the river they are..
Fear éigin a bhí, níl a fhios agam cé féin anois bhfaighidh mé a ainm go minic, bhí stór aige, choinníodh sé ansin é ná go dtiteadh siad amach ar an ríl, cé gurb in é ann, bhí an bealach a bhí acu, níl a fhios agamsa, ach bhí sé ráite thiar go hAlbain, bhí, bhí siad, bhí an stuif ag dul le haghaidh sópa agus idences den tsórt sin.
Some man there was, I don’t know exactly who now—I’ll get his name often—he had a store, he used to keep it there until they would fall out on the reel, though that’s how it was, that was their way, I don’t know myself, but it was said back in Scotland, it was, they were, the stuff was going for soap and things of that sort...
7 B'fhéidir deich gcinn fhichead anois, sin deich deich gcéad fhichead thart air sin anois, deich gcinn fhichead amháin i gcurach amháin.
Maybe twenty now, that's about two hundred, around that now, twenty in one currach.