School: Gleann Iascaigh (roll number 16363)
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- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- The castle at the mouth of the Gleneasky river which flows through Gleneasky was inhabited by a Giant and his wife. The giantess was one day out walking when she met a man named O'Dowd and she put him in her apron and carried him home to the castle. She had a cradle made a O'Dowd put into it. There he had to stay as the Giant had no children of his own. A giant from Scotland came one day in answer to a challenge to Roslea castle, to fight the Roslea Giant.
The day he arrived the Giant was(continues on next page)