School: Cill an Daingin, Nenagh (roll number 6658)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó hOgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 251
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- (continued from previous page)giant was asleep, the dwarf got a hatchet to kill the giant. He hit the giant on the forehead, but he only broke the hatchet. The blow awakened the giant and he caugh the dwarf in his hand and ate him up.
But the dwarf was alive in the giants belly, and he pulled out his sword, and killed the giant. When the giant was dead the dwarf cut a bit out of the giant's side, and crawled out.
There was an old witch living in Killard. Healy was her name. She was only two feet two inches in height. One night a woman came to visit her. The witch threw a pot of water in which was a charm, on the woman's head and turned her into a brush. The next night the witch spilt the charm on herself and she was turned into a nettle.
Collected by:-
James Kennedy
Puckane, NenaghObtained from,
Mr J. Kennedy,
Puckane,
Nenagh.
Age 75 years.
- Collector
- James Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Puckaun, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr J. Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Puckaun, Co. Tipperary
