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.

Níl a fhios agam cá ndeachaigh siad.

I don't know where they went.

Agus an mbíodh cearc rí thíos agaibhse, an mbíodh coileach chroí thíos thíos?

And did you ever have a hen down below, did you ever have a cock (rooster) down below below?

Ó bhí bhí fuil cearca fraoi, bhíodh siad bhoil, ní raibh sé chomh fairsing sin mar a déarfá ach níl ceann ar bith acu le feiceáil anois.

Since there was the blood of the heath hen, they used to be plentiful, it wasn’t all that widespread as you’d say but there isn’t a single one of them to be seen now.

fhéin

self. .

Níl bhí titim amach as sin. Bhí portaigh agamsa amuigh ansin i gceathrú

There was no falling out from that. I had bogs out there in the quarter.

Agus suas ansin sna FIFAdáin bheaga agus

And up there then in the little FIFAdáins and.

As caitheamh an churaí í sin.

That is the way of the game..

An oíche bhí cearca fraoigh neadracha ansin acu.

The night they had nesting grouse there.

Aha

Aha. .

Agus bhínn amuigh ansin le blianta. Ní fhaca mé an ceal croí a Mháirtín le scór bliain.

And I used to be out there for years. I haven’t seen Máirtín’s lack of heart for twenty years.

Agus an mbítí ag foghlaeireacht an mbíodh daoine ag teacht ag foghlaim, ag caitheamh leis na cearca fraoi?

And when there was schooling, did people come to learn, to deal with the grouse hens?

Bhoil, bhí a pháirtí bus.

Well, his/her bus partner was...

Á tá sé dhá scór blianta ó shin.

Ah, it is forty years ago..

Ach ní raibh le blianta beaga anuas.

But not in recent years...

Ní raibh ní raibh éinne ag fáil réidh le taobh seo le le le

There was, there was no one getting rid of this side at all.