School: Na Hárda (Ardfield), Clanna Caoilte (roll number 1267)
- Location:
- Ardfield, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Ghrífín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0317, Page 203
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- (continued from previous page)would be back soon, and she gave him a seat, and told him to wait. She offered him a drink, and as he was hungry, she said she would bake a cake for him. When she was making the cake she put pieces of iron into it unknown to the strange giant and when it was baked she gave it to him. When he was eating he said it was very hard, and she said that was the kind of bread her own husband used always eat. When the giant was swallowing the food a piece of iron got stuck in his troat and killed him, so that was how she saved her husband Mary Hurley
Little IslandFrom Patrick Hurley
Little Island
- Collector
- Mary Hurley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Little Island, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Little Island, Co. Cork
