School: Ferns (C.) (roll number 13267)
- Location:
- Ferns, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Mhuimhneacháin
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- The Gobán Saor.When St. Aidan was building his church, he lacked skilled workmen. He employed a labourer one day - blessed his hands and immediately the man became a skilled architect, and later a famous builder. He was known as the Gobán Saor, and built marvellous Castles etc throughout the country.
- One of the flat tombstones in the Graveyard marks the grave of a Fr.Redmond, who while a student in France, saved the boy Napoleon from drowning