School: St. Michael's Clooncunny (roll number 14589)
- Location:
- Clooncunny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Stondúin
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- There is a story told locally from which can be seen that the great Boulders of the Ice Age on either side of the lake bear witness in popular imagination not to an Ice Age but to the angry humour of the giants of old.
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“There was a giant in Dúbh Bhaile and there was another in Fauleens and they were never friendly.”
There was a giant in Dúbh Bhaile and there was another in Fauleens and they were never friendly.
One morning an argument arose between the pair and they started to throw rocks at each other. They continued it for a long time and at last they gave it up for the giant in Dúbh Bhaile had not the plentiness of rocks like the one in Fauleens. But you can see the rocks to this day in Dúbh Bhaile that came from Fauleens as they are the same type of rock.
