School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)walked a great many miles until he arrived at a little house. In this house there lived an old woman seven hundred years old. She kept Jack that night.
Next morning he set off and after walking some miles he met an old man on the road. The old man told Jack keep going along the road until he would come to a lake and on the lake a swan would be swimming about, and the swan would carry him on her back to the giant Castle.
When Jack arrived at the giants Castle, he showed him a wood and told him that he would have to cut every tree in it. Next(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Mc Keon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreenaseer, Co. Roscommon
