School: Gurteen, Ballymahon
- Location:
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: F. Ó Murchadha
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- A third version of the same story is as follows:
A giant stood on Slieve Bán mountain and threw the rock unto Paddy feeney's field a distance of fourteen miles and the track of his hand is in the rock. This stone is flat and weighs about a ton. This rock is called the Giant's Rock.- Collector
- Mary Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Daroge, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Daroge, Co. Longford