School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)
- Location:
- Aghagower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Hannah T. Kevilla
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- There lived a giant in Ireland and he was a great hunter. He took a great big rock and he flung it at his mighty best into the sea and it is said by very old people that that is the Isle of Man.A giant from Ireland and a giant from Scotland started to make a road in which they could walk from Ireland to Scotland. They started to make it and when they had a bit of it made they started to fight and they made no more of it. The part that is made is called the giants causeway.
- Collector
- Sadie Gibbons
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corveagh Upper, Co. Mayo
- There is a river in Curvey and a water dog lives in it. A man named John Lavelle was crossing in a place where the water dog was to pass. He had just(continues on next page)
