School: Eanach, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 15221)
- Location:
- Annagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Críocháin
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- Mrs. Burdett Moroney was the Landlady of these lands. She gave sites to Lords and Protestant Gentlemen in Spanish Point and they built nice lodges and houses. But she was very hard on the tenant-farmers and some of them were evicted and she was boycotted about 50 years ago.
The shop-keepers of Miltown would not supply her servants with goods and about twenty of them got a month in jail. The tree blacksmiths of the town would hot shoe her horses and they were sent to prision.
T. D Sullivan M. P composed a song about them.-I
Three brave blacksmiths down in the County Clare,
They wouldn't shoe the grabber's horse, they would'nt shoe his mare,
They would'nt take his money, for his threats they didnt care,
Those three brave blacksmiths down in the County Clare,II
Three brave blacksmiths coming home once more,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Marnáin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Knockanalban, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Marrinan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Knockanalban, Co. Clare