School: Nuadhan (Noan), Dúrlas Éile
- Location:
- An Uamhain, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghormáin
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- (continued from previous page)and there was only one big, flat, stone to be put on the top. The king was on the ground waiting for his plan to work. Meanwhile, the Goban Saor was thinking of a plan to save himself. The flat stone was too big to fit on top and the masons were afraid to cut it for fear they would break it. So the Gobán Saor said that he had a special chisel for that kind of work at home. The king was afraid to let the Gobán go home for it. The Gobán wrote a note and gave it to the king to send to his wife. The king sent his own son across to Ireland for the chisel. When he reached "The Island" he gave the note to the Gobán Saor's wife. She immediately seized the king's son and tied him up, and then sent a messenger across to England to the king to tell him that she would kill his son unless the Gobán Saor would arrive home in a week. The king let the Gobán free and the king's son got safely home. The castle was never finished.
Michael Kevin
Lurgoe
Killenaule
Co. Tipp.
I heard this story from my father, James Kevin of same address 49 years
- Collector
- Michael Kevin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Lorga, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- James Kevin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- An Lorga, Co. Thiobraid Árann
