School: Edengorra (roll number 9597)
- Location:
- Edengora, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Michael Hetherton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0710, Page 136
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- (continued from previous page)refreshments and she gave him some of the bread and he could not eat it.
She said that the child in the cradle would eat it. she gave Weena a cake of it but there was no iron in it. The Scottish giant said I must see this wonderful child before I go. The Scotch giant went over to the cradle and he put down his left hand and Weena ate the thumb of it.
The giant ran out of the house. On his way he met a bull belonging to Weena and he tried to bring him with him. Weena rushed at him and each of them caught the bull and pulled him into two halves and Weena hit the Scottish giant with his part of the bull and killed him. Then he went to dig a grave and a lake sprang up and drowned the people around and this lake is know to day as White Wood lake.
A grave is never opened in Kilmainhamwood on Tuesday for it was on a Tuesday that White Wood lake sprang up.
- Collector
- Patrick Cusack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corcarra, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Patrick Cusack
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Corcarra, Co. Meath
