School: Baile Dubh, (C.) (roll number 15541)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Brigid Prior
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- (continued from previous page)powerful physicians but they could not cure him , only they assured him, he would live a long natural life provided he never got into a violent temper.
On the day of Our Lord's death he notice the darkness in the heavens . He asked his druids what was the cause of the darkness , and he was told that a just man had been put to death that day.
He rushed out and caught his sword , and began hewing down the trees, and with the awful anger in his brain , the brain ball burst in his head and he dropped dead - the first man to die for Our Lord.
The Gobán Saor :- It is believed that the Gobán Saor travelled(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baranvalla, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- James Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Baranvalla, Co. Waterford
