One of the wonders of my child-hood days was Finn Mac Cool's thimble, a perforated circular stone shaped like the whorl of a wooden botton, which lies inside the gate of the Back Lodge of Castletown. As I think of it now it may be the unfinished top-stone of a quern but
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"What's that big stone, daddy?"
"That's Finn Mac Cool's Thimble
"Who was he?" He told us ad lib.
"Fionn was being chased by a Scotch giant. He was so hard pressed that he lost his thimble. When Finn was coming in this gate the Scotch giant was standing on Gráig na Spideog Hill & he flung the thimble after Finn. It fell here & there it has remained ever since.
"No. It's not like a thimble. Finn had two doors to his house, a back-door & a front-door. He used to fling this stone over the roof from behind the house, & ran through