School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 06_098
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- Long ago there was a soldier who was in the wars for a long time. After a great number of years he came home. When he came there was no one before him expect his mother. When she saw him she began to cry, and she said " I have not even a drink of milk to give you" " There are three giants," she said," on one of the Islands of lough Mask and they took my one only cow. "She said that they had all the neighbourhood round about robbed bringing the cattle from them. He said(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
