School: Beárna Dhearg (B) (roll number 14633)
- Location:
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Flaithrí Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0026, Page 0162
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- (continued from previous page)how the stick it on? So one day he was going through a wood and he met a fairy, when the fairy when the fairy saw he had no hands she asked him where was his hands? They are broken; go and get them for me and I'll fix them on you very well said the wise man's son, he went to his gran mothers but and she tied his hands around his neck. The wise mans son went to the fairy and the fairy fixed the hands on him. Nest day he found himself as strong as a lion. When nighttime came and the moon was shining the wise mans son got the giants whiskers and stook it in the ground and climbed up along it and when he reach the end of the whisker he shouted out "if ye don't give me my corn I'll thrash ye" with that the bags of corn fell down until it made big mountain of bugs' Next day he filled ships with it until it was all gone, he sold it in foreign countries and he got bags of gold and silver for it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Martin Dolan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
