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   the lid of it and when she got a good view of the contents says he to her, "if you become mistress here what are you going to do with this gold?" "If I become mistress here we'll add to that store every day". You will do." says Gobán, so young Gobán got married at once. So they lived happily afterwards. Some time later a King from a far off sent for Gobán and his son to build him a castle. This King lived in a palace but he thought his castle wasn't of an up to date style and hearing of Gobán's fame at building castles he sent for him and Gobán and his son took on the work. So they started off. Gobán and the son started off to build the new castle and as afore mentioned, young Gobán was not very smart and had very little to say and when they were about a mile of the road the old man said to his son, "you must go back and bring the house with you." So young Gobán trudged back. The wife was standing in the door as he came along and asked what took him back. "My father told me to come back and bring the house with me." "Musha", says she, "take them two big coats and get along with you out of this". He took the two coats and started off again and reached

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridget Coyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coragh, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mr P. Mc Gennis

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Coragh, Co. Cavan