School: Derrynananta
- Location:
- Derrynananta Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs O' Regan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0965, Page 089
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Stories of Giants and Warriors.Once upon a time there were two Giants in Glangevlin in Co. Cavan. Their names were Sam and Billy. They were as big as a house. Some say that Sam used to go about from house to house where he would get plenty to eat. There is an Ált mentioned after Billy. It is so called because Billy used to go and stay there after he had his breakfast. Sometimes they to fight amongst themselves. There was a man going out the mountain to some town and he met Billy and he said to the man that he would hurl that big rock from the top of the mountain and he did hurl it and broke it into big stones and he hurled it down the mountain side. In penal times priests used to go about hiding for fear of the Giant's and once there was a priest in this valley and Sam would kill him if he caught him saying Mass. The priest said to Sam to go out the mountain(continues on next page)
