School: Cluain Leamhac (Cloonloo) (roll number 12767)
- Location:
- Cloonloogh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 075
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- Once a man named Tom Scanlon was going
through a bog in Taverane at a very late hour.
Suddenly he saw two small men with red jackets
and one of them asked him to dance but he said
he did not know how to dance but even if he did
he could not dance in the bog. One of them stooped
down and scraped the ground with his finger and a
flag came up. After a while dancing the men
asked him to play the flute. He was a very bad
player but when they asked him to play a tune he
was able to play it and before long he was a great
player and dancer. Then they said they would leave
him home and just as he was about to tell them
go they had disappeared.
- Collector
- Josie Corrigan
- Gender
- Female
- Once upon a time two giants lived on Keash
hill. One day they stared fighting and one of the
Giants left his hand on the rock to jump it and he
killed the Giant. He left the impression of his hand
in the rock and ever since it is called the Giants(continues on next page)
