School: Breaffy (roll number 15555)
- Location:
- Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Catháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 270
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Breaffy
- XML Page 270
- XML “A Story about Two Giants”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Once upon a time there were two giants who lived together in a wood in this village. The people called them because one of them was so stout and the other was so tall. The name of those two were Grug and Glug.
It is said that Grug was only half as tall as Glug but he was as wide as a hay-stack. They were very fond of stealing, and they use to steal cows, sheep, pigs, and hens from the people who lived near. Those two giants used(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Charles Gebson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
