School: Ballyroddy (roll number 12629)
- Location:
- Ballyroddy, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 149
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Story of huge giants who were outwitted by a punt opponent.There was once a little weaver called "Brian the weaver." he was very poor. and he had a wife and children to support. so he said he would go out to seek his fortune. When he was weaving he could not throw a shuttle except he had a roll of butter beside him, one day he was weaving, with the butter beside him, and he saw whole crowd of flies on the butter, he pulled off his hat and threw it on the butter killing a number of flies. he wrote down on an old blade of a scythe that was beside him, "with one blow, one day, I killed fifty. This blade he brought with him on his journey to seek his fortune. He walked for miles and miles and at length, he came to a gentlemen's Castle, he lay down beside a stack of straw to rest himself, and left his blade beside him. The gentleman' herd went out in the morning early to look after his masters' stock, he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- A. Rushe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shankill, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Miss N. Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Raheen, Co. Roscommon
