School: Tankerstown (roll number 15304)
- Location:
- Tankerstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Thom. F. Meagher
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- The Local Forge
My ancestors for several generations owned a black-smith's shop at Tankerstown. The first man to work it was a man named John D'arcy. The forge is built a hundred an seventeen years. There were five generations of Smiths in the D'arcy family. The first forge was a thatched one with mud walls. it was built a hundred and seventeen years ago. There is a cure in forge-water, it is a cure for rickets in children.
My ancestors held the forge on the condition that they shod the landlords horses free.
The forge is now a ruin as we have gone to live in one of the new cottages in the next townland and my father does not work at the trade.
- Collector
- Patrick D'arcy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toureen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Patrick D'arcy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toureen, Co. Tipperary
