School: Killeevan (roll number 14150)
- Location:
- Cill Laobháin, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Mrs Beggs
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- There was once a Giant who lived in a house at the back of Mr Tom Greenan’s Quarry.
The remains of the old house are to be seen yet, and a hundred years ago the walls and doorway were still standing. It is said that the door way was ten feet heigh and four feet wide.
He was supposed to be nine feet, nine inches tall, and weighed fifty five stones.
He was buried in the old graveyard beyond the rectory at Killeevan. His name was Seamus McCaffery.
The stone steps at Killeevan School house door way are parts(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Effie Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cill Laobháin, Co. Mhuineacháin
