School: Cúige na Mainseár
- Location:
- Quignamanger, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Amhaghladha
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“Once upon a time there lived a very poor woman and her son, Jack.”
(continued from previous page)She gave him his dinner and then she put him into the wardrobe in the room. Then the boss came in and he sat down at the fire and said to his wife
"Fee, Faw, Fum, I smell the blood of an Irish-man. His livers and lights for the supper to night, and his blood for the morning dram. ,
Then the wife said to the husband.
"There is no one in the house; no one came into the house while I was here."
Then the giant went to bed, and he kept a cage beside the bed and he kept the hen that would lay a golden egg when you would tell her, and he had a harp also, and it was called the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mairead Hennigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Hennigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo