School: Mullach, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 3928)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Sandair
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- (continued from previous page)out of his sight. It is said that if any one got "Gownthick's" anvil he could make anything he would like.
I also heard that when "Gownthick" used to shoe horses that he used cut the four legs off the hordes and bring them onto the island and shoes the hoofs within. He used sledge the iron cold. He had a brother a smith also who lived in Lisdeen near Kilkee. This smith used hear "Gownthick" sledging in Mountscott a distance of twenty miles.- Collector
- P. J. Montgomery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doonogan, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Martin Shannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doonogan, Co. Clare