

A website dedicated to the Irish language in County Mayo
TURAS SIAR - A DOCUMENTARY
Pap and Kath Murphy discuss their journey to establish a centre that celebrates the local dialect, history and genealogy of the people of Belmullet. They discuss the state of Mayo-Irish dialect and their efforts to revive it.
Dé Máirt
8ú Meán Fómhair 2025
The Countryside
Fields
Féar - grass, hay
Cúlán féir - stretch of grass
Páirc - field Páirceannaí - fields
Bunchlaí - earth heaped up to create a fence beside a ditch
Bogland
Portach – bog
Mianach mónadh - peat
Land and soil
Talamh mianach - quality ground
Bogán – soft ground
Dóib – sticky clay
Poll – hole Poill - holes
Slaba – mud, ooze
Píosa talaí - a bit of land
Country lanes
Bóithrín – small road
Corrsheantach - an occasional old house
Cúlán talaimh - secluded little croft
iargúlta - remote
Ditches
Ceirt - something stuck in a ditch
Ceis – a walkway over a ditch that is made of twigs
Saich – ditch
Wetlands
Dumhuighe - sandbank
Miotail - metal
Ór - gold
Airgead – silver
iarann - iron
Water
Tobar – well
a'silt anuas - dripping down
Weaving
Ciseán – basket
Cochan – straw
Sailí - sally rods
Material
aol - lime an t-aol - the lime
Discussing the countryside
agus go ngabhfadh siad a'cuartú rud eicínt i dteach ar a'baile - they had to go looking for something in a house in the village