Saint St Goban

St. Goban, St. Gobban, or St. Gobhan is the name of various saints of early Christian Ireland. However the ecclesiastical integrity and merit of the saint(s) is often debased by confusing, composite attempted biographies. However, by applying objectivity to the analysis of references in pertinent hagiographies and eminent biographies we can reach a constructive conclusion; that the number of references to a St. Gobban far outweighs those to a St. Goban. and that the references to St.Gobban link this saint to St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin and to Killamery: Cell Lamraidhe and identify this saint as Gobban Find mac Lugdach alternatively anglicized as St. Gobhan. 1) "Monasticon Hibernicum Or the Monastical History of Ireland". (John Stevens, 1722) cites five references to St. Gobban and 1 reference to St. Goban. 2) "An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland". (John Lanigan, 1829) cites eight references to St. Gobban and one reference to St. Goban. 3) "Journal of the Royal Antiquaries of Ireland". (1861) cites one reference to St. Gobban and none for a St. Goban. Analysis of the references shows overwhelming citation of a St. Gobban associated with: a) Old Leighlin: seanleithglinn County Carlow b) Killamery: Cell Lamraidhe County Kilkenny c) Seagoe: teg-da-goba. County Armagh. "The Martyrology of Oengus" states “of Gobban of Cell Lamraide in Hui Cathrenn in the west of Ossory, a thousand monks it had, as experts say and of them was Gobban." Also from the now lost Annals of Cloneagh-"A.D. 639. St. Gobban, who founded the monastery of Old Leighlin, and afterwards resigned it to St. Laserian, retiring in 632 to Killamery in Ossory,(Kingdom of Ossory) died this year and was interred at Clonenagh. His feast was observed on 6 December.