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... Gobban Saer ; mistakes concerning him ; explanation of his name ; he was a real personage . Old Irish writers fond of assigning a mythological origin to men of great skill or learning . The legend of Tuirbhi , the father of Gobban Saer ...
... Gobban Saer ; mistakes concerning him ; explanation of his name ; he was a real personage . Old Irish writers fond of assigning a mythological origin to men of great skill or learning . The legend of Tuirbhi , the father of Gobban Saer ...
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... Gobban Saer , of whom I shall have some- thing to say by and by . The first of these instances is that of the oratory of Saint Mo- building of ling of Tech Moling ( now Saint Mullin's , in the county of Car- low ) , and is recorded in ...
... Gobban Saer , of whom I shall have some- thing to say by and by . The first of these instances is that of the oratory of Saint Mo- building of ling of Tech Moling ( now Saint Mullin's , in the county of Car- low ) , and is recorded in ...
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... Gobban Saer ; mistakes concerning him ; explanation of his name ; he was a real personage . Old Irish writers fond of assigning a mythological origin to men of great skill or learning . The legend of Turbhi , the father of Gobban Saer ...
... Gobban Saer ; mistakes concerning him ; explanation of his name ; he was a real personage . Old Irish writers fond of assigning a mythological origin to men of great skill or learning . The legend of Turbhi , the father of Gobban Saer ...
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... Gobban Saer . The man's Chris- tian name was Gobban , —a word which means literally one with the mouth like the bill of a bird ; and the word saer signifies , in the old as well as in the modern Gaedhelic , both a carpenter and a mason ...
... Gobban Saer . The man's Chris- tian name was Gobban , —a word which means literally one with the mouth like the bill of a bird ; and the word saer signifies , in the old as well as in the modern Gaedhelic , both a carpenter and a mason ...
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... Gobban's father is given in the well - known ancient topographical tract called the Dinnseanchas , where it ... Saer . " The strand of Tuirbhi , whence was it named ? Answer : The legend It is not unpleasant to tell . Tuirbhi Traghmhar , that ...
... Gobban's father is given in the well - known ancient topographical tract called the Dinnseanchas , where it ... Saer . " The strand of Tuirbhi , whence was it named ? Answer : The legend It is not unpleasant to tell . Tuirbhi Traghmhar , that ...
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