School: Kilmeedy (B.) (roll number 7161)
- Location:
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: John O'Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0496, Page 253
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- (continued from previous page)The two of them had two long clubs, and the battle lasted for an hour, and the clash of the weapons were heard for miles around.
At last both of them were filled with wounds.
Both of them were sore and weary, and at lenght Nepo felled his man to the ground.
Nepo although on the winning side fell himself and died.
His three sons buried him and the other Giant on one huge grave in the top of Corinn.
Afterwards his three sons emingrated to Scotland and they were never heard of again.
They say that long ago Finn Mac Cumhail hurled a rock from Corinn to Knockfierna, a distance of about three miles.There is an other story told about ab old hag that lived here long ago. They say that her name was Biddy Early.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Fitz Gibbon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Ted Moloney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 95
