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    The Gobán Saor was a highly skilled smith or architect in Irish history and legend. Gobban Saer (Gobban the Builder) is a figure regarded in Irish traditional...
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  • Gobán Saor is synonymous with the legendary Scandinavian named Vaeland Smith and Goibniu of the Tuatha De Dannan. According to oral tradition, Gobán Saor...
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  • folklore, Cearbhall is presented as a womaniser and trickster similar to the Gobán Saor. Irish folklore recounts how Eileanóir Chaomhánach (Eleanor Kavanagh)...
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    century. The monastery was said to have been built with the help of "Gobán Saor", the legendary Irish builder. An 8th-century manuscript, The Book of...
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    Dachua (Mochua Luachra); and with the success of the Irish architect Gobán Saor. His heirs to Rosinver Abbey in County Leitrim and Drumlane Abbey in County...
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  • Irish mythical character Tuirbe Tragmar ("thrower of axes"), father of Gobán Saor. At various stages, the house and surrounding lands formed the family...
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  • Sliabh an Iarainn. There has been a forge at that location ever since. Gobán Saor Gofannon Gobannus Goblin Hephaestus Delamarre 2003, p. 182. Matasović...
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    translates as smith~craftsman. Gobann the craftsman – a skilled builder – the Gobán Saor. St. Gobhan was renowned as a builder-founder of many churches. However...
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  • century saint from Ireland, "Gobban of Kill-Lamraidhe (Killamery)". Gobán Saor (Gobán the Builder) - legendary Irish architect from 7th century, popularly...
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    about". The cat with two tails, a stonemason's carving associated with the Gobán Saor in Irish folklore, is sometimes conflated with the Kilkenny cats. Steven...
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