School: Corbally, Roscrea (roll number 7736)
- Location:
- Corville, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean de Brún
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- (continued from previous page)had double their amount of milk, because they had grased this patch. "This is a great man" said the gentleman "I suppose the other man used to let them lie all day". They had to engage coopers to make more vessels to hold all the milk. Next day he drove out the cows he looked in over the giant's wall he came out a bit and ran at it with his shoulder and tumbled a perch of it and drove the cows into the giant's field. The giant's mother seen him. "Arise, Arise here is Jack the widow's son the parish of Rahoon in the county Westmeath. It was prophecised in your father's time that he was to come and behead ye". "Go out" says she to the eldest son "and bring me in his head, if not," says she "don't come in yourself". Out comes the eldest son, he asked Jack would he fight , box or wrestle. "I will wrestle" says Jack, "which I was best used to in my own place". They remained wrestling all day until coming on evening when they made the hard ground soft and the soft ground hard. In a while a little bird came and told Jack to give him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Condon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Denis Condon
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
