School: Clonard (roll number 16067)
- Location:
- Clonard, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 127
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- (continued from previous page)making the little girl laugh.
- Once (there) upon a time there was a woman and her husband. They had seven sons and they had were very poor. So they sent them seven sons to the woods so they lost there way in the wood and they could not find there way home. So they went into a giants house and asked for a nights shelter the giants wife let them in and when she was putting them to bed the giant had seven daughters. When the giant had put seven gold crowns on the seven daughters and put seven caps on the seven boys when they were asleep in the night the seven boys got up and took the seven gold crowns of the seven girls and(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Muhan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Molerick, Co. Meath
