Turas Siar 181 - Pádraic Ó Gionnáin as Cill Ghallagáin ag cur síos ar éanacha farraige i gceantar Dhún Chaocháin. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal Gaelach. Máirtín Mac Donnchadha a chuir i láthair.

Ha

Ha. .

Bhoil níl siad ní raibh éinne istigh ar stop an chlaibín anois le le níl éinne in ann a dhul isteach ar an gcloigeann.

Well, they’re not, there was no one inside to stop the hatch now because no one is able to go into the skull.

Ach bhíodh cnap acu sin istigh ansin agus neadracha acu.

But they used to have a lump in there and they had nests.

Agus géanacha móra bhí cuid dhó trom le le le lacha.

And big goslings, some of them were heavy with the duck...

'Sea.

Yes.. .

Agus rud eile atá imithe, a Mháirtín, chomh maith na lachain oileáin.

And another thing that is gone, Máirtín, as well as the island ducks...

'Sea.

Yes.. .

Bhíodh sí síos ansin tá fhios agat anois ag ag an bhfarraige ansin ag bul na habhann ansin tá fhios agat.

She used to be down there, you know, now at the sea there at the mouth of the river there, you know...

San áit a bhfuil an sruthán sin.

In the place where that stream is...

'Sea.

Yes.. .

Agus maidineacha moch bheifeá bheinn bheinn tithe a bhí an tíos maidineacha moch. Bheadh duine ar bith thíos mar déarfá.

And early mornings you would be, I would be, houses that were below, early mornings. There would be anyone below, as you might say...

Ach nuair a bheifeá thíos tar éis caoisigh maidineacha le fochaí an lae.

But when you would be down after weary mornings with the burdens of the day...

Agus nuair a bheadh siad sin ag éisteacht amach i do chosa sna srupáin sin?

And when they would be listening out in your feet in those little shoes?

Bhoil, le ceathair nó cúig de bhlianta, tá siad imithe as bumbáil.

Well, after four or five years, they have stopped bumming around.

Nach iontach é sin.

Isn’t that wonderful.. .