School: An Chlais Mhór, Eóchaill (roll number 2889)
- Location:
- Clashmore, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Liam Suipéal
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0641, Page 46
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: An Chlais Mhór, Eóchaill
- XML Page 46
- XML “A Story”
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 I heard a story about a giant . This giant was a very wicked man and he used to kill all the people he would catch. He would take all the cattle and sheep he would see. There was a little boy who lived with his Auntie and Uncle. One day he said he would go and kill the giant, he got up early that morning and got ready to kill the giant.
He was thinking for a while how he would kill him. After a while he thought of a plan. He got a spade and he dug a deep hole. He cut some green branches and put them over the hole. He then went to the giants castle door and gave a terrible knock and hearing the loud knock came to the door and said "Who dares to knock so loud at my door" and running out he fell into the hole and with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Murray
- Gender
- Female
