School: Ross (roll number 12789)
- Location:
- An Ros, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Cáit Bean Uí Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0718, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)midnight and his colossal figure in the dim lights often scared many a Londoner. It is recorded that one night a watch man seeing him lift off the top of a street lamp to light his pipe was carried off unconscious. On another occasion, when in his own carriage he was accosted on a lonely road by a mounted highwayman and ordered out to deliver, but on alighting the robber spurred his horse and fled.
After a quarter of a century exhibiting he returned in affluence to Bristol where he died of consumption aged 47 years.
Charles Byrne, another Irish Giant, of 7 feet 9 inches died in London His last request was to bury him under a 12 foot stone lest the body snatchers should unearth him but somehow they got his remains and his skeleton is now in the College of Surgeons London.
Corneluis McGrath, the Tipperary Giant of 7 feet 8 inches, died in 1760 in College Green, Dublin. He was an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Joseph Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Droichead Uí Dhálaigh, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Joseph Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Farren Connell, Co. an Chabháin
