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School: An Clochar, Uachtar Árd (roll number 13439)

Location:
Oughterard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr M.S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 392

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    Giants
    Long ago there were two giants in Oughterard. The Connemara Giant and the Galway Giant. They had it settled that one day they would come to fight. The Connemara Giant came and the Galway Giant came.
    When the Galway Giant saw the Connemara Giant he got afraid and he ran home. The Connemara Giant got vexed and he took up a rock and he threw it after the Galway Giant and the rock fell in the Plantation where it
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. giants (~518)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pauline Molloy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Oughterard, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Jim Molloy
    Gender
    Male