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 314
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- (continued from previous page)must be the truth for him. Finn must be a great man and "I will go home now when I will say good-bye to Finn's wife, and he promised them that he would never go afar Finn again to fight him.
He asked then could he see the child's teeth and she told him that he could but he would have to put his fingers back for" said she. So he put his fingers into his mouth and when the child got them well in he bit the fingers clean of him and then he had no more strength than any other big man. Then the giant began to roar and the child jumped out of the cradle and began to beat him until he killed him, and then he took him out and buried him in the other well that he made.
- Collector
- Martin Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clogher More, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Clogher More, Co. Mayo
