School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- (continued from previous page)that he would not sleep a wink that night until he would take the three heads off the giants.He got a (bone) boat and oars that were at the shore ad he rowed out to the island that the three giants were on. He pulled in at the islands. He got his spear and them he peeped up through bushes that were round the island and he saw the three giants sitting round a big fire and the cow roasting on the fire. They were eating some of the cow that was being roasted. One of the giants said to another that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
