School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)
- Location:
- Aghagower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Hannah T. Kevilla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088E, Page 13_016
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- There were two giants one time in a small house. They used to go fighting every day for a month. They were fighting one day and one of them said to the other I will kill you. At last one of them got killed. One of them split a rock and it is there yetThere was a giant in a house near Aughagower. He used to kill all the people he got up to. One time a boy went into the giants house with an axe and got the giant sleeping. He cut the head off the giant and buried him in the mountains of Curvey.A prince had two children and a giant was living in a wood. Every day he used to come to the prince's house. One day he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jack Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackaun, Co. Mayo
