School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)
- Location:
- Gortjordan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0106, Page 565
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- (continued from previous page)boy got a strap lost. He took it up and put it on him. When his mother saw it she said it was not right to take anything that he got lost. She made him leave it on the ground after him. The boy went away and when he got his chance he turned back to pick it up. When he got it he put it on him and found it made him very strong. When the night was coming they had no place for lodgings. There was a giants castle on the way and the boy said he would ask lodgings of the giant. His mother said that if he did the giant would kill him. The boy went to the door and asked for lodgings. The giant told him to come in for the night and so they did. Then the giant brought in a bullock(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilkeeran, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Crilley
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Kilkeeran, Co. Mayo
