School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Diolún
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0201, Page 160
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drumlease
- XML Page 160
- XML “Folk-Tale”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)in Ireland, called Finn, and this giant had been listening to stories about Finn's greatness for a long time as at length he set out for Ireland till he should see for himself, and besides there was no great giant he had heard of in any country that he had not beaten, except Finn, so he wanted to beat him too. He sent Finn word that he was coming and when Finn got this news he did not know what to do. He told his wife the trouble he was in. She at once thought of a trick. There was a cradle in the house bit it meant have been in a big one. She put Finn in the cradle. ''Now'' said she. ''I'll say that you're not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcoosy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcoosy, Co. Leitrim
