School: Coolavin (roll number 10422)
- Location:
- Monasterredan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 287
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- (continued from previous page)"Good luck to him". said the giant", and if he continues growing he'll soon be as big as myself" and with that he went down home again.
Giants often had fights and cast rocks at one another. There are some rocks on our land said to have been flung by a giant from Kesh, at the Croghan one morning, when the Croghan giant went out to cool his porridge, he started to blow it with his mouth and caused such a wind that it vexed the Kesh one and the latter started to throw stones at him.
- Collector
- Peter Conry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardsoreen, Co. Sligo
