School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 060
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- Long ago there was a farmer living in the west of Ireland and he had the best flock of sheep in the four corners of Ireland. He had a very faithful servant man working for him but in spite of all the servant man's care the farmer used to lose a fine fat sheep every night. Now the servant man found out that the sheep were being taken and eaten each night by four giants (three sons and a father) that came from the east in the dead of the night. So he told the farmer that he would stay up at night to discover all about the giants. So he put down a big fire in the shed and got up on the rafters and had with him a ball of crud ( curd) At midnight the three giants and the father came into the shed with a dead sheep and began to roast it at the fire. The servant man on the loft threw the curd ball at the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Laurence Hoolahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Foxfield, Co. Leitrim
