School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462, Page 116
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- One day Fionn Mac Cumhails men went to the hill cutting turf. Fionn remained at home minding the house. He went out and looked around him and he saw a big ship coming towards him in the sea and he chewed his finger and the knowledge he got that if he was with them that they would be in the better of him for ever, and that if he was not with them that they would not be in the better of him for ever. They landed near the house. Fionn went into the cradle and told his wife to make a cake and to put a greddle in the middle of the cake. Then the man came into the house, and his name was Dub-gorm he was a giant. He asked Fionn's wife for some thing to eat. She gave him the cake, and the first bite he took out of it he left all his teeth in it. When he had eaten he asked what she had in the cradle and she said a baby, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Guihan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
