School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090F, Page 15_023
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- Long ago there lived a big gaint in the village of Cooloughra. The people called him big tady. He lived in a small house at the foot of a hill. This gaint had a huge appitite. He could eat six stone of potatoes at a time & eight pounds of meat. One day an old man was passing by and the gaint came out and told him that if he was not able to run six miles he would kill him. The old man said he would.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Stephen Madden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killadeer, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
