School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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“Long ago there was a wood ranger and he had a daughter.”
(continued from previous page)ranger's daughter. The little boy put his finger on the blood and it was off. He went down along the bank of the river. The giant said when he came home I smell an Irish man around but he wont be around to morrow for I will send out three wild dogs that will eat him". Next day the dogs were let out and the boy killed them with his sword. The second day he nocked all the spots of blood off of her and while the woman was out. The kings son stole the girl away home.
- Collector
- Betty Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry