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chroch chéasta greanta air

A carved, tortured cross on it.

deir fansabhaile is an ghaoth

The local fans say it's the wind.

gur bhain na hiarsmaí seo le tús ré na críostaíochta

that these relics were related to the beginning of the Christian era.

agus gur ionad tábhachtach cloch ghréine a bhí ann

and that it was an important site of a sunstone.

chlocha meilte a bhí in úsáid in éirinn

Millstones that were used in Ireland.

ó ré an chré-umha anonn go dtí an seachtú aois déag

from the Bronze Age onwards to the seventeenth century.

ghlac muintir an oileáin leis

The people of the island accepted it.

gur ionad naofa a bhí ann

that it was a holy place.

agus d'fhág siad mar sin é

and they left it like that.

rinne muintir inis gé a gcuid tithe taobh le taobh os cionn na farraige

The people of Inis Gé built their houses side by side above the sea.

na doirse agus na fuinneoga ag féachaint amach

the doors and the windows looking out.

seo teach mhuintir raghallaigh

this is the O'Reilly family's house.

agus tá dominic agus john anseo taobh liom

and dominic and john are here beside me.

ceathrair, trúir gasúir agus gearr-chaile

four, three boys and a girl-een

agus dominic

and Dominic