School: Gurrane (C.) (roll number 14840)
- Location:
- Clondrohid, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0326, Page 367
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- (continued from previous page)and he hid himself in the manger. At twelve o'clock one horse began to speak and said to the other we will have a hard time next week for the masters servant is heavy and the to the churchyard is long and steep. Next week the servant fell sick and died. And it is said that anyone who stays up at night to hear the animals speak some bad luck would come upon them.
- About a half a mile from my house there is a large oblong shape stone it is called the Giants table. It is like cut out from solid rock and its weight must be many tons. It must be Giants used it as it would be impossible for any body else to take it to the top of the hill. Around this stone table are placed stone stools which the Giants used sit on. In the map of our parish it is marked as the Giants table.
- Collector
- Margaret Murray
- Gender
- Female
