School: Cluain (C.) (roll number 15443)
- Location:
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Uí Sholamháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 231
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- (continued from previous page)The giant would not believe this, and he was not content until he searched the house. After long seeking he found the boy and he asked for the hatchet to cut off his head, but the giantess said there was enough food which would last till the next day
He therefore decided to kill the boy during the night. Now the giant had a son and so he would know one from the other he put a cap on the boy's head and a crown on his son's head When it was about one o'clock the little boy knowing the trick the giant was going to play crept out of bed and took the crown and put it on his head and placed the cap on the little giant's head
During the night the(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
