School: Sráid (roll number 14369)
- Location:
- Strade, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Grádaigh
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- (continued from previous page)and he was very hungry. He ate a forty gallon boiler of stirabout. Then the king put him working. He saw a crowd of men cutting down trees. He got hold of one of them and pulled it from the roots and threw it into a cart. He pulled five or six other trees and put them into the cart. Then he traced a horse to it and he could not pull it. He took the horse out from the cart and pulled it to the king's palace himself. Then the king thought of a plan that would kill him. He made him fight his army. He got the two legs of a bullock one in each hand and he killed half the army with one blow and the other half with another blow.
- Informant
- Pat Mulroy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Strade, Co. Mayo