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 567
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- (continued from previous page)lion did not kill him. He tried another plan. He told him he would kill him if he did not root out a big stone as big as himself. The boy went up to the top of the hill and the giant waited on the side. The giant told him he would kill him. The giant went to root out the stone and the boy went to root out one as big as the giant. The boy had the stone rooted out before the giant and it rolled down the hill and killed the giant.
- Collector
- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilkeeran, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Crilley
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Kilkeeran, Co. Mayo
