School: Cluain (C.) (roll number 15443)
- Location:
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Uí Sholamháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 230
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- (continued from previous page)woman and as it was getting very dark he asked could he seek shelter there until morning. The giantess told him that this was the house of a giant and if he stayed he would be in great danger of being killed.
However, she decided to hide him under the bed. After a few minutes the giant came in. No sooner had he entered the kitchen when he began to smell around him and with a thundering voice which frightened the boy he cried out "Fee, Fá, Fum, I smell the blood of an Irishman, Be him dead or be him alive, I will make his bones for stepping stone, And a marble of his head." But his wife replied "It is only an ox I am after killing."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Reynolds
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortnarah, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Francis Reynolds
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
- Address
- Gortnarah, Co. Leitrim
