School: Granagh (B.), Brúgh Ríogh (roll number 9927)
- Location:
- Granagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Spiaráin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0499, Page 032
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- In olden times, when the swallows used build their nests in old men's beards, there lived on the side of the mountain a very poor old man and his son. One day the son went walking and came to a farmer's house. The farmer gave him lodging and the son hired with him. This farmer had a little bull that was very old, and the boy used to feed the bull every morning and every night. He was with this farmer 7 years and the bull said to the boy one morning, "when I am dead take my tail for a walking cane, and take a strip of my skin from my tail to my head, you can have this for a belt around your waist and you will be as strong as I am then. About a mile off from the farmer's land there lived three terrible giants in a castle, and every day the son used to hear the giants giving three roars. "This day" Jack met with a leprechaun, and he said(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Dunworth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Limerick
