School: Baile Uí Fhiacháin
- Location:
- Newport, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)in Co. Mayo.
- Once upon a time a man lived in Shramore. One night as he was minding cows on Buchagh he heard a terrible noise like the grumbling of a man. He went to the spot and was frightened on seeing a giant. He began to run as fast as he could but the giant caught him and brought him to a house where he put him in a room and said, "I will eat you to morrow" then he went out. The man examined the room and found a bad spot in the thatch in the roof. Luckily he had brought his stick with him and he bored a hole in the roof. He went through the hole and ran(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mel Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- F. Chambers
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newport, Co. Mayo