School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0219
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- Cláipín lake is situated between two very famous hills the hill of Cnoc Ma and the hill of Belmount. There is a story told in this locality of the two giants that lived one on each hill, and who could never agree.
It seems they were afraid to meet each other closely and they fought by throwing large stones at each other a distance of ten miles. Some of the stones that were thrown can yet be seen on our land.
They are huge big stones with the tracks of their fingers stuck into them, more of the stones are on the top of the hills, at least so the story goes, but what happened to the giants is not known.
- Collector
- Donnchadha Ó hAinnín
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Denis Hannon
- Gender
- Male
