According to Diarmuid Ó Sé, words preceding
ar only resist lenition in certain phrases, so
ar fhleasc (mo) d(h)roma is what I would expect, at least in Corca Dhuibhne. I would translate as 'he rammed me in the stomach with his head', but I think that your translation would work too as they're both pretty similar. I wouldn't see any reason for it to be pronounced as
tharraig in Corca Dhuibhne, but I could definitely see it as a possibility. I notice that the dialectal spelling used in A Thig Ná Tit Orm, at least the copy that I have, tends to reflect the grammar of the dialect more so than the pronunciation, so Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé definitely might have said
tharraig instead. I think that with certain phrases like this there is some ambiguity to the actual verb used, i.e.
thug sé ~ tharraing sé poc isteach sa ghoile orm. That being said, I have noticed that Maidhc has a very strong gravitation to the verb
tarraing, where perhaps a different verb might be expected in the CO, here are some other examples:
Quote:
Thugamair seachtain fhada dhíreach ag tabhairt íde béil ar a chéile, ach ní raibh puinn misnigh ormsa aon bhuille dhoirn a tharraingt air mar ná feadar mise nó é siúd a bheadh thíos leis, mar chúram. [Here also we can see that he writes tharraingt, even though the pronunciation tharrac is found, as far as I know, all throughout Munster.]
Cad a dhein sé siúd chun an cath a thosnú ach pléasc a tharraingt isteach sa phus ar an mbeirt againn in éineach!
Ní raibh aon oidhre ar lán na beirte againn tar éis na bruíne ach dhá lipín mhaol bháite a bheadh tarraingthe aníos as poll portaigh. [This usage is a bit more regular/standard, as it takes the sense of 'to draw', i.e. 'two bare, drowned, dripping-wet things that would be drawn forth from the bog'.]
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