IRISH GIANT'S GHOST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13948, 2 January 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

IRISH GIANT'S GHOST.

HAS FINN McCOULL REAPPEARED IN GALWAY? TifK ghost of an Irish giant, perhaps Finn McCoull himself, who built the Giant's Causeway, has been amusing itself by frightening the people in the neighbourhood of Gal way. On a recent Saturday night a couple of young men on their way home from a party at the village of Newcastle were crossing the railway line near a place called Glanville, when they saw a human form about nine feet high confronting them. When they approached the spectre it vanished, but reappeared about forty yards further down the railway, and was last seen going in the direction of Lough Corrib. The young men brought the story into Galway City, and the next night half-a-dozen of their friends started to interview the giant's ghost. They were armed with shotguns and revolvers, and soon after they arrived at the. place they saw the giant coming toward them. One of the men raised a revolver, but before he could fire he became unconscious and fell into the arms of his companions, who paid no more attention to the ghost. One of them declares, however, that he heard the ghost laughing. The unconscious man was carried into Galway, and taken to a medical man, who revived him after some hours' work.

Other parties went out, but the ghost failed to appear.