She led the way, slow and bent as she was, with her walking stick.

Do threoraigh sí an slí dó, agus ise mall is cromtha, a maide siúil léi.


And very soon, the King of Ireland's Son began to get frightened,
he thought there was some awful kind of storm blowing up,
because it got dark.

Agus go han-luath thosaigh eagla a theacht ar Mac an Rí na hÉireann,
shíl sé go raibh cineál éigin uafásach stoirme ag neartú,
de bhrí go h'éirigh sé dorcha.

Corrections gratefully received.

I'm stuck on this one - and he was a smallish, oldish man. For oldish, I've found breacaosta and scothaosta, but what would smallish be ? scoth beag ?

I've been told that to express the word - smallish - in Irish, there's -

sách beag
beag go leor
réasúnta beag

- so for the sentence I'd like to translate, I'm suggesting this:

And he was a smallish, oldish man,

Agus bhí sé fear réasúnta beag, réasúnta aosta,

How's that?

Agus bhí sé ina fhear réasúnta beag (,réasúnta)* aosta.

* I'd expect one réasúnta is enough.

Go raibh míle maith agat.

(I'm chancing my arm here)

I'll have the head down off you by sunset.
would that be -

Gheobhaidh mé bainte an ceann díot faoi luí na gréine.

Word order: 'bainte' would go after 'ceann'. While the structure 'rud a fháil déanta' is (presumably) 'Béarlachas' originally, it's long established in Irish - but I think 'rud a bheith déanta agat' would be more suitable here. 'Faoi luí na gréine' seems also to be a set expression meaning "under the sun/in the world" in phrases like "nothing new under the sun/the best father in all the world", so I would use 'roimh' instead of 'faoi' just to avoid any possible confusion (unlikely though that might be in this context).

'Beidh an ceann bainte agam díot roimh luí na gréine' would be my version. 'Bainte' could be omitted, I think.

Go raibh maith agat - it was just that I was under the impression that this was Irish transposed into English - apparently not.

Again I'm stuck on a passive - that hasn't been cleaned.

Here's the context -

you have to clean out an old byre that's here,
that hasn't been cleaned for a long number of years.

is éigean duit cartadh sean-bóitheach a bhí ann,
..........................leis an uimhir fhada na blianta.

1- English passive often translated with autonomous - 'nár cartadh'.
2- 'le(is na) blianta fada/le tamall fada de bhlianta' (never 'uimhir' in this context).
3- '... seanbhóitheach a chartadh'.

Actually, I'd never come across 'cart' before (níl morán Gaeilge léite agam faraor) - I'd just have used 'glan (amach)' - though I see that very example, 'bóitheach a chartadh', is in FGB.