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School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)

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Kiltullagh, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Seán Ó Seasnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0034, Page 0497

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  1. The Goban Saor and the Plough

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    In olden times there was a man who went under the name of the Gubawn Soar. One day he thought to himself that if he would make a plough without horses. It took him seven years to make the plough. When he had the plough made he went out one morning early. When he came in to breakfast he told him wife that he had seven acres ploughed. His wife said it was bad work in seven years.
    He got vexed and out he went and broke the plough. There was no plough made of that kind before or after that.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. Gobán Saor (~181)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ettie Dempsey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockatogher, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Bernard Dempsey
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Knockatogher, Co. Galway