School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)
- Location:
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 187
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- (continued from previous page)shec could show him the finger. The giant got up and he ate the pig. The little man was hidden in a room among dead bodies. When the giant had eaten enough he went into the room to get a bit of one of the dead bodies. He took a bit off the little mans leg. There was an old woman in the corner and she said it was the truth because she was the Giant's servant. The owner of the Steed of Bells was the little child. The man believed the story and he gave the Steed of Bells to the three brothers and they drove home. The Queen was on top of the tower and when she heard all the bells ringing she got such a surprise that she fell from the top of the tower and was killed.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Murnane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bealaclave, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Murnane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bealaclave, Co. Tipperary
