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An dara tead

from Edward Bunting, The Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin 1840), page 21: The strings of the harp.


Irish An dara téad os cionn comhluí spoken by Gráinne Yeats
Scottish Gaelic an dara teud os cionn co-laighe spoken by Tony Dilworth

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An dara tead os cionn caomluidhe - Second string over the sisters

The two versions match; the Irish should read An dara téad os cionn comhluí/cobhlaí.

Colm Ó Baoill 2002