School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hairt
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 313
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- Folk Story - The Boy and the Giant.There was an old man and woman who lived near a giant's palace. Every day the old woman would let out her cows the giant would kill them, so the old man told the woman to get a servant boy to mind them. He told him not to let the cows into the giants field or he would kill them.
The next morning the servant boy went out and drove the cows into the giants field until the giant came along.
When the boy saw him coming he went up on an apple tree and started firing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Loughney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygarry, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tommie Golden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Lackan, Co. Mayo
