School: Lower Warren (roll number 7793)
- Location:
- Warren Lower, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Liam Mac Coiligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 458
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- 1 Gobán Saor was a good builder. He was building a steeple one time and the people wanted to kill him. So when they got him up on the steeple the took away the scaffold and Gobán could not get down. There was a man standing by and, he said "Ah look at him, and then he told Gobán it was easier to take down (one) two stones than to put up one stone. So Goban began to trow down the steeple and the people had to put the scaffold again, and Gobán got down safely.
- Goban Sáor was a steeple Jack. He built the steeple of St. Mary's Chapel in Athlone. When he was putting a cross on top of the steeple his head got light and he fell to the ground and got(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Hughes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bealin, Co. Westmeath
