School: Gleannóg, Malla (roll number 9448)
- Location:
- Glannoge, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs K. Barrow
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- (continued from previous page)and stuck feathers on the tar.
Lights are very often seen around those rocks. Each night a black dog was seen sitting on the ditch near the rocks. Clena herself married a Jiant. The Jiant was a very able man. He threw a big stone in one hand over his head three miles from Carrig Clena rocks standing upright in the middle of a field the print of his five fingers and the sign of his head are on the stone.
What happened the Jiant we know not but Clena and the Jiant had a fight and she left the rocks. But she visited them once every Summer and she was drowned in the tide one Summer while visiting the rocks.
- Collector
- Mary Ann Horgan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Nursetown More, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Denis D. Horgan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nursetown More, Co. Cork
