School: Ceathrú Stialláin (Carrowsteelawn) (roll number 12555)
- Location:
- Carrowsteelaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Giollagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)eat it. Then the child started up and told his mother to give him something to eat, and the wife handed him a cake without any iron in it and he ate it and the giant looking at him. Then she told him to get up and to go out and to show the giant what Finn used to do.
So he went out along with the giant and he handed him up a white stone and told him to bruise water out of it. The giant set to work and began to bruise with all his might but he could not knock a drop out of it. Then he took the stone from the giant and left it down and took up the one that was made of curds and bruised a lot of water out of it, and then the child said "you are no good of a giant a near my father. I will go in to my cradle." So the big giant said that it must(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clogher More, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Clogher More, Co. Mayo
