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		<pubPlace>24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin</pubPlace><date>Samhain, 1900</date><idno>IG10-11150</idno><distributor>Royal Irish Academy</distributor>
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<text><body><div><p><span><pb n="612"/></span>
<lb n="1"/><span>SEANCHAS ÓMÉITH MHARA.</span></p>
<lb n="2"/>
<lb n="3"/><p><span>AN GEARRÁN NEAMHSHAOGHALTA.</span></p>
<lb n="4"/>
<lb n="5"/><p><span>Bhí mo mháthair, Máire Luim-</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>neach, agus mo dheirbhshiúr, Anna</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>Ní Anluain, coinfheas-</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>gar shamhraidh 'g</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>'ul suas chuig an </span>
<lb n="10"/><span>pháirc sheimre bhí</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>aca thuas aige lios</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>Drom-mhullach, agus nuair</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>a fuaidh siad suas, chon-</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>naic siad gearrán bán, muighe bhán air agus iur-</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>ball fada síos leis go dtí an talamh.  Arsa</span>
<lb n="16"/><span>mo máthair le mo dheirbhshiúr, “Seo gearrán</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>Dhomhnaill Uí Fhionnagáin agus tá muinn creachta</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>ag an ghearrán ins an tseamair gach aon </span>
<lb n="19"/><span>oidhche.  Bearaidh muinn síos a bhaile linn é </span>
<lb n="20"/><span>agus ceanglochaidh muinn ins an chró e go </span>
<lb n="21"/><span>maidin.  Fuaidh mo mháthair ar an taoibh</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>eile de agus shaoil siad an gearrán a thabhairt </span>
<lb n="23"/><span>a bhaile.  Nuair a thiomáil siad an gearrán </span>
<lb n="24"/><span>anuas tamallt beag, shiubhail se roimhe </span>
<lb n="25"/><span>leobhtha agus shaoil siad go raibh se 'g 'ul a</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>bhaile.  Lean mo mháthair agus mo dheirbshiur an </span>
<lb n="27"/><span>gearrán síos an cnoc agus fuaidh sé isteach i </span>
<lb n="28"/><span>dtigh Nannaigh Luimnigh agus bhí a fhios aige mo </span>
<lb n="29"/><span>mháthair nach raibh sé saoghalta.  Fuaidh siad </span>
<lb n="30"/><span>isteach 'un a' tighe a deachaidh an gearrán </span>
<lb n="31"/><span>isteach ann roimhe leobhtha agus chan fhaca siad </span>
<lb n="32"/><span>níos mó é.  Bhí inghean an tighe ag fágháil </span>
<lb n="33"/><span>bháis agus bhí an mháthair 'g 'ul as a céill le </span>
<lb n="34"/><span>buaidhreadh agus le brón agus chrom sí síos 'un</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>póg a thabhairt d'á hinghin agus bhuail a srón </span>
<lb n="36"/><span>i n-aghaidh an bhalla agus fuaidh sé ag cligint </span>
<lb n="37"/><span>fola.  Thuit an fhuil anuas ar aghaidh an </span>
<lb n="38"/><span>chailín agus ag an bhimide sin go díreach </span>
<lb n="39"/><span>d'éag sí.</span></p>
<lb n="40"/>
<lb n="41"/><p><span>Bhí bean do na comharsanaibh, Nansaidh</span>
<lb n="42"/><span>Ní Dhomhnaill a h-ainm, ag teact trasna </span>
<lb n="43"/><span>abhann Chor-na-muclach ag amharc ar an </span>
<lb n="44"/><span>chailin an t-am ciadna a d'éag sí agus bhí a lán </span>
<lb n="45"/><span>rasáin ann, draoighneáin agus sgitheoga agus aitinn </span>
<lb n="46"/><span>agus chonnaic sí an cailín so ag marcaigheacht</span>
<lb n="47"/><span>ar an ghearrán bhán agus an sluagh sidhe, deich </span>
<lb n="48"/><span>míle aca agus níos mó, roimhe léithe agus 'na déidh</span>
<lb n="49"/><span>agus í i dtoiseach ar an sgaoith agus fuil ar a </span>
<lb n="50"/><span>héadan.  Thainic sí isteach insan tigh 'raibh</span>
<lb n="51"/><span>an cailin seo marbh ann.  D'aithnigh sí an </span>
<lb n="52"/><span>cailin agus an fhuil bhí ar a haghaidh agus bhí an fhuil</span>
<lb n="53"/><span>uirre nuair bhí sí ag siubhal leis an sluagh</span>
<lb n="54"/><span>sidhe thart gach dtaoibhe de.  Sin an deireadh </span>
<lb n="55"/><span>anois agat.</span></p>
<lb n="56"/>
<lb n="57"/><p><span>Tagra.</span></p>
<lb n="58"/>
<lb n="59"/><p><span>This story procured from Nelly O'Hanlon, Drum-</span>
<lb n="60"/><span>mullagh, Omeath, and that following from her sister</span>
<lb n="61"/><span>Sarah.</span></p>
<lb n="62"/>
<lb n="63"/><p><span>Luimneach, a surname formerly common in Omeath.</span>
<lb n="64"/><span>Emigration and death have scattered its bearers, so </span>
<lb n="65"/><span>that there now remains not more than two families</span>
<lb n="66"/><span>of the Limnas, one in Cnoc-na-gcuarán and the other </span>
<lb n="67"/><span>cois trágha.  Three brothers said to be of French</span>
<lb n="68"/><span>extraction, but bearing the Irish Christian names</span>
<lb n="69"/><span>Toirdhealbhac (pr.  Táirleach), Feidhlimidh, and Padhra,</span>
<lb n="70"/><span>fled from Limerick after the treaty of 1691, and</span>
<lb n="71"/><span>settling in Drummullagh got the name Luimneach from</span>
<lb n="72"/><span>their neighbours.  Its is never used with Mac or O. </span>
<lb n="73"/><span>The separate houses of the three brothers still exist</span>
<lb n="74"/><span>at the end of Drummullagh Wood.  Nelly O'Hanlon</span>
<lb n="75"/><span>thus traces her ancestry down from the eldest of the </span>
<lb n="76"/><span>three brothers. </span></p>
<lb n="77"/>
<lb n="78"/><p><span>Toirdhealbhach an chéad duine, Toirdhealbhach an darna</span>
<lb n="79"/><span>duine, Paidí an tríomhadh duine, Feidhlimidh an ceath-</span>
<lb n="80"/><span>ramhadh duine, Toirdhealbhach an cúigeadh duine, </span>
<lb n="81"/><span>Feidhlimidh an seiseadh duine agus Aodh a dhearbhráthair agus</span>
<lb n="82"/><span>Máire inghean Aodha agus mise inghean Mháire. </span></p>
<lb n="83"/>
<lb n="84"/><p><span>Muighe, “mane” = muinge (gen. of mong) used as </span>
<lb n="85"/><span>nom.</span></p>
<lb n="86"/>
<lb n="87"/><p><span>Tá muinn: muinn a synthetic ending of 1st plural.</span>
<lb n="88"/><span>Tamallt beag, an answer to the accusation against </span>
<lb n="89"/><span>the Irish of Leath Chuinn that it always weakens ex-</span>
<lb n="90"/><span>isting forms, generally tamaillt, cf. timcheallta — </span></p>
<lb n="91"/>
<lb n="92"/><p><span>Shiubhail mise Éire timcheallta,</span></p>
<lb n="93"/>
<lb n="94"/><p><span>from an old Tyrone song.  Also deán do dhícheallta = </span>
<lb n="95"/><span>do dhícheall, Co. Derry.</span></p>
<lb n="96"/>
<lb n="97"/><p><span>Roimhe leobhtha = rompa so; roimhe liom, </span>
<lb n="98"/><span>leat, &c.</span></p>
<lb n="99"/>
<lb n="100"/><p><span>Cf.  Léim se(?) thaire leis an tsruthán</span>
<lb n="101"/><span>He leaped over the burn</span></p>
<lb n="102"/>
<lb n="103"/><p><span>heresh, tairis an sliabh, beyond the mountain (Co.</span>
<lb n="104"/><span>Derry).</span></p>
<lb n="105"/>
<lb n="106"/><p><span>Fuaidh = chuaidh from Inishowen to Cooley.</span></p>
<lb n="107"/>
<lb n="108"/><p><span>Aige, the simple form of the preposition in Omeath</span>
<lb n="109"/><span>district.  So even “Gheobhaidh tú aoibhneas ar hallaidhe</span>
<lb n="110"/><span>bána aige mo mhealladh le siamsa an cheoil” in “Úr-</span>
<lb n="111"/><span>chroidhe an Chreagain.”</span></p>
<lb n="112"/>
<lb n="113"/><p><span>Cligint, shedding blood.  This is the word which i </span>
<lb n="114"/><span>wrote thlig in Iomáil Léanadha an Bhádhbhdhuin, and which </span>
<lb n="115"/><span>I glossed as = theilg.  I think it must be a distinct </span></p>
</div>
<pb n="613"/>
<div><lb n="116"/><p><span>word.  Clig díod e, throw it from you.  So in an </span>
<lb n="117"/><span>Omeath song — </span></p>
<lb n="118"/>
<lb n="119"/><p><span>Thuit mo croidhe go brónach agus fuaidh mo shrón ag cligint</span>
<lb n="120"/><span>fola.</span>
<lb n="121"/><span>Cor-na-muclach (the adjacent townland).</span>
<lb n="122"/><span>Rasán, bushes, shrubbery.</span>
<lb n="123"/><span>Sgitheog = sgeachóg.</span></p>
<lb n="124"/>
<lb n="125"/><p><span>An fhuil, pr. an yel as if n were slender.  This is</span>
<lb n="126"/><span>very often the case, cf. in Omeath, an fhaire = </span>
<lb n="127"/><span>the wake.  For a similar thin sound of n before</span>
<lb n="128"/><span>a broad vowel cf. from S. Derry — Tá mé i n-obar,</span>
<lb n="129"/><span>tairrinn amach mé, I am in a bog, draw me out; i n-obar,</span>
<lb n="130"/><span>pr. in yubbar.  Cf. also thin n in chan fhuil = ní bhfuil,</span>
<lb n="131"/><span>which sound can hardly be due to analogy of níl.</span></p>
<lb n="132"/>
<lb n="133"/><p><span>Thart gach dtaoibhe de = </span>
<lb n="134"/><span>Donegal thart fá dtaobh de</span></p></div></body></text></TEI>
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