School: Clochar
- Location:
- Clogher, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhimsithigh
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- (continued from previous page)lived and they saw him and asked him what the placard was for and he said he killed seven men with one blow. The giants said they would kill him with their fingers and they took him into the house. They tried to kill him and they could not. They put him to bed and they thought they would surely kill him in bed so they got an ascel of a cart and they threw it across the bed in which he lay and broke it in two. Nesct morning they went to the bed escpecting to find the boy dead. He was alive and they asked him did he find anything last night and he said he found something like a rat shaking its tail across the bed and they had to let him go.
- Collector
- George Barker
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Laragh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs E. Brown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Laragh, Co. Monaghan
