School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 234
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Caisleán Nua (C)
- XML Page 234
- XML “An Gobán Saor”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)came again and said "I will give £5 to-morrow to the man who will be able to tell me what is one's greatest friend? what loves one best? and who is ones greatest enemy. When the Goban's son told this to his father he said "To-morrow when you rise take your best friend the dog, your greatest enemy your wife, and what you love best your son to the king's palace. When the king came the Gobáns son told him his dog was his best friend. He loved his son best and his wife was his greatest enemy. "If I was your greatest enemy" said his wife "I would have told long ago that your father was hiding behind the house." That is what I want" said the king. The Gobán was then taken and bound up and a great fire was ready for the burning of the old man. There was a great crowd of people gathered and stories were been told by all the noble men. One noble-man who was asked to tell a story said he was not able but that he would give £50 to the man who would tell a story for him.(continues on next page)
