School: Béal Átha Uisce (roll number 4836)
- Location:
- Felane West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Séaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0278, Page 116
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“Once there lived in Dingle a giant who went to the east...”
Once there lived in Dingle a giant who went to the east for a supply of wine. On his voyage home he landed in Kayrour strand about three miles east of Castletown Bere to take a short cut back to Dingle.
He felt tired and when he came to the top of Maulin he lay down to take a rest, and began to drink the wine through a tube. He fell asleep and while he was asleep another giant came to steal the cask of wine. He tried to pull the tube out of the sleeping man's mouth but failed. By using a stone as a lever between the sleeping giant's teeth he tried to open his mouth and pull out the tube. The sleeping man woke up and caught the stone and threw it from him. It landed on a mountain in Bere Island. On its journey through the air a splinter fell off and landed in a field in Milcove. Both stones are still to be seen. He then caught the giant and flung him from him, the body landed west in Allihies(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamon De Paor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Derrymihin West, Co. Cork