School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 456
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- (continued from previous page)rock is to be seen to the present day.
Teresa Mulready
- There are no old stoties told locally of giants to have ever existed in my district.
On the side of the hill of Frewin in John Beirne's land there is a very large stone with the greater part of it buried in the earth. It is said to be thrown there by a giant from the hill of Knock-Ine.
About a hundred and forty years ago two men Patrick and Nicholas Gaynor who lived near Frewin were the strongest men ever in Midlands. They were well over seven feet high.
There was a large stone in Sonna with a hole in it so any man could put(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peter Hanley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
