School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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- (continued from previous page)down the wall. So the man threw stones at one giant. The giant turned and said to the other giant, "What are you throwing stones at me for?" and with that he hit him a stroke of a sledge and killed him.
Next morning, the man who was building the house found the dead giant and he praised the man.
The man went there again next night and threw a stone at the giants and they began to fight, and they killed each other.
The man who killed the giants got a good reward.
- Collector
- Edward Thornton
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Nora Thornton
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Paal West, Co. Cork
