coachman at first seems unwilling to carry out the order. He was too surprised but on being told a second time to go he hesitated no longer. He went back to the smith & delivered his message. He was rather surprised to see that the smith was not in the least elated with the proposal. The smith's reply to the proposal was - "Has your master a trade". "Oh no" said the coachman, "he needs no trade - He owns lands & wealth & everything he can wish for. He has no need to work at a trade or anything else." The smith said he did not mind about his wealth & riches but he could not have his daughter when he had no trade - The coachman more surprised than ever returned with the answer. The gentleman sent him back again to the smith to tell him who he was & to let him know what an important person he was & how he had more wealth than he would ever be likely to spend. The coachman came back &

One day a gentleman was on a journey in his carriage: He discovered that one of his horses had lost a shoe. He pulled up at the first forge he saw by the roadside. He went in & askes the smith if he would put a show on his horse - The smith said "Certainly." The coachman took the horse in while he walked around & looked about him. Looking into the forge he was surprised to see a girl sledging for the smith. He inquired who she was & found out she was the smith's daughter. Now he became very interested in the girl & watched her every movement as she hit the hot iron, blow after blow. He admired the skill & ease with which she did her work. Soon the shoe was on & paid for & the gentleman proceeded on his journey. He has not gone far when he told the coachman to stop & go back & ask the smith if he would give him his daughter in marriage. The

Long ago there lived a man in townland of Tullyclevan who had a son that never walked. One day his father was going to the forge with his laige. When his father was going to leave the house the boy said "if the Black smith looks after that Iron and that after he repairs it, it will not be done right. So when the smith finished the iron he looked at it for a while. The man said that job is not done right. The smith said "how do you know that." "Well" said the man I have a son at home and he never walked and when I was leaving he told me if the smith looks after the iron and then throws it down it is not done right "Well" said the smith, "when you are near the house run in and say "the forge is on fire so when he reached the house he ran in and said "the forge is on fire" Then

and had nothing but a "God spare you your health," in place of payment "Right" said the smith "let my hound have that. Other people came to the forge and they without any payment for the smith but the same fine prayer and according as the smith got the prayers he used to bestow them on the hound. He used give it no other food or drink. The prayers were the hound's food but they made poor meat for him for the smith found him dead in the morning after his being dependent on the feeding of the prayers. A man came to the forge that day and he had a couple of hinges and a couple of reaping hooks that were not too strong to be fixed. The smith did the work and the man was thinking of going, "God spare you the health" said he. Instead of the answers

"A dead smith would come again and work in the forge".
Once a smith died leaving his son as smith. Any hard work the young smith had to do was done by some unknown person during the night. One night he stayed under the bellows, and watched for the unknown smith. About the hour of mid-night a man appeared and began to work. The son seeing it was his father spoke to him, the latter disappeared and never came again.

arrived. The smith asked the man to show him the rat burrows in the ditches "the man did" and the smith blocked them from the inside with stones. Then the smith went on the road and said a few words the man did not understand him but when he had said them the rats came in great numbers from the ditches to the road. Then the smith pointed his finger the next house. The rats went quickly to it. There was one rat that was blind another rat took the blind rat in his mouth and carried him away. The smith said if they could not get enough to eat, in the new house, that they could come back again and could not be hunted. There was not a rat seen in that house since

Once there lived two smith's, and they were called owen-een and owen-een a peake. Owen-een a peake was the big smith and own-en was the small smith. They were two brother's, and the small smith was beath very cruely by the big smith. He thought he was so weak and small and he thought he was of no use to him in the forge. One day he said to him-self that he would get rid of small Owen-een. So he got a sack and put small own-en into it.

There are two forges in this parish one in Holycross and another in Tobins Cross. The names of the smiths who work in the forges are the Reillys. The Reilly family have been smiths for generations. Their father was a smith and their grandfather. The roofs of the forges are slated. The smith has to be a very strong man, because he has very hard work to do. The smith has a big bellows in the forge to blow the fire. He also has water to cool red irons. The fire place is made of brick. The smith's work is to shoe houses and mend farm implements. He beats the iron on the anvil and it is very pleasant to hear the sound of the sledge on the anvil. When the boys are going home from school they generally stop at the forge to see the smith working and to see the sparks flying.

powers an' I bet you you couldn't go in this box". The divil went in and the fifty young fellas followed im. The smith wouldn't let im an' the divil asked 'im to let 'im out an' that he wouldn't come back for another ten years. The smith did so The ten years weren't long goin' an' the divil came along, an' the smith forgot all about the apple tree an' he locked the dure an' was goin off. When they were passin' be the apple tree the divil went up for an apple an' o' coorse he couldn't get down. He was there for two months, an' at last the smith let 'im down. The divil never came back again an' the smith lived happy ever afther.

has the cure of the itch. Mrs Smith Killagrogan has the cure of the dirty mouth. Mrs Ellen Smith Behey has the cure for a itch Phillip Smith Mullamagavan has the cure for a heart-ache Ann Mac Donald Corrahoe the cure of an Evil. Rose Smith has the cure of the strain Ned Brady Turlahood and James Reilly Mullamagavan has the cure of the strain also. William Bravender Drumgora the cure for lifting up the pallet of your mouth James bonglain the cure for a cancer. Terrence SMith Mullamagavan the cure of a rum- burst. Jeyus fluid the cure for a toothache and nine goose-berry thorns the cure for a sty on your eye. The cure for the whooping cough is a bottle of water from a holy well.

It happened that Finvarra came the same way another night. He called Hughes to put a shoe on his horse. Hughes knew the voice and he had no hesitation in getting up this time. He put on the shoe all right and Finvarra asked the charge. The Smith told him as before that he never charged a man on the road and that he would not charge now. Finvarra told the smith that he would not have that this time, that he shod the horse before and did not charge. "I will pay your now" said Finvarra and make a rich man of you if you keep it secret. He gave the smith a small purse and said that the smith could take two gold sovereigns every time he wished. But that he was not to tell anybody living about it. The smith soon became a rich man and his wife wanted to know where he was getting all this gold. The smith kept the secret and his wife kept nagging all along. Like all women she wanted to know the story. At last he became so annoyed with her he told her the story in full. He asked her not to say anything about it. But the next time he opened the purse to get some money he found only two withered olive leaves in it. The blacksmith was a sorry man then that he had not kept Finvarra's secret. He never saw the fairy horseman from Cnoc Ma again.

There are three forges in this parish. The name of the smiths are Patrick Salmon, Michael Conroy, and Martin Gill. Their fathers were not smiths. The forges are situated on the roadside. The forge is a large building and it is roofed with galvanize. It has a double door and one fire place. The bellows is an iron instrument that is used for blowing the fire. It is not made locally. When the smith is working he uses a sledge, a pincers, a hammer and nails. The smith shoes horses and asses. The smith makes all the implements that are used on the farm such as ploughs, harrows spades, shovels, and picks. This work can not be done except by a smith. The smith shoes wheels out in the open air.
The implements used by the smith when he shoeing wheels are iron and

Once upon a time there lived a man who had one son. The boy was about ten years of age, and was crippled. He was always tormenting his father and mother and telling them what to do about the house.
One day the man was going to the forge to get a spade fixed by the smith. Before he left the house the cripple told him to puts tell the smith to put the threddle on the left side of the spade. The man told the smith what his son had told him. The smith asked him what kind his son was. He told him that he was ten years of age, and that he had never walked. The smith said that that child was not his own son, that he was a fairy child. "When you go home" said the smith, "the child will ask you if you

There was once a smith who lived away from the people by him-self.
One day a man came into the forge and there himself and the smith had a long talk about many things. The man said that he had a great deal of rats round his house and that they had every eaten in him, oats, potatoes etc and he asked the smith how would he get rid of them. The smith said I will hunt them for you for five shillings. The man said he would give him the money. Then the smith told him to stay us until midnight and that he would go to him. The man did as he was told and at twelve o'clock the smith

There are two forges in my parish. One is owned by the Callaghans and the other is owned by the Cliffords. The smith in one is Berthy Callaghan and the smith in the other is Tadg Clifford. Clifford's forge is situated near a crossroads. The roof is made of felt. The door is of no special shape.
There is only one fireplace there. The implements the smith uses are, an anvil, a bellows, a furnace, a sledge, a hammer and many other things.
The smith shoes horses and donkeys. He also mends the farm implements. The smith is supposed to be a very strong man. It is said that there is a cure for a disease on horses in forge-water. It is also said that if the smith washes his hands in the forge water he will get stronger.

Once upon a time a smith and his wife lived together in the bad times. They were very poor and they had no way of getting on. One day as he was sitting down in his forge pondering over times a strange man walked into him and said "You seem to be in great trouble, if you comply with my wishes I will make you a rich man, you will have to give yourself up to me after seven years. I am the devil I will give you three wishes and anything you wish for you will get it". Before leaving he left a chair he said that anybody who would sit on it would stick to it and could not leave it without his wishes. I am now leaving you and I will call again this day seven years". The smith got to be a very rich man. All his undertakings went very well for him. At the end of the seven years the strange man turned up and he was very anxious for a chat with the smith. The smith being very busy at the time told him to sit on the chair for a while and then he would be talking him. He sat on the chair but the smith told him that he could not stop on it. He begged and implored of the smith to relieve him and if he would he

With an accident in the smith’s forge and they were discussing how they would have him taken home to his stable when the smith suddently commanded them to put the horse on his back and he carried him comfortably to his stable which was about five hundred yards away.
There is a story told of another smith who was crossing the country and found himself alone in a field with a bull. The animal rushed towards him the smith immediately jumped on his back and raced and raced him around the field holding on tightly until the animal was breathless and dropped down in the field near the wall which the smith jumped over and cleared his life.
The forge was a famous place for local gossip instead of making for the public house for recreation on a bad day the farmers gathered to the forge, discussed politics, often introduced matches in the shrove time, held their secret land league meetings there and the young men helped the smiths to make the pikes which were used to such advantage. “By the rising of the moon”. The bravery of the smith did not die away altogether with the old times as one of the best fighting men of our own times as Sean McKeowen, Ballinalee, Longford

In the parish of Mooncoin there are two forges one in Clogga and another in Grange. The smith in Clogga is Larry Kelly and the smith in Grange is Henry Tyler. They shoe horses and Donkeys and mend ploughs harrows and sprongs, a smith is very strong.
One day the holy family were going along a road and Our Lady lost her broach. St Joseph asked a cowheard for a thorn and the cowheard said that he was two busy. They came along to another cowheard and he said the same thing. Although he has nothing to do only mind cattle. Soon they came to a forge and St. Joseph asked the smith for a pin but the smith had know one. But he said that he would make one. He took a piece of money out of his pocket and made it into the grandest broach you ever saw. Our Lady thanked him and gave him her blessing. Ever since a smith who washes himself in the water which has cooled his irons finds himself refreshed and made stronger. If a

People used to bring their horses to the forge at night because all the neighbours came into the forge and they told stories. There is a forge in this townland but it is not used now. here is a story that happened in it. Once there was a man living near the forge and he was troubled with the toothache. He was afraid to go to the dentist. One night he went on his [?] to the forge. He was telling the blacksmith about his toothache. The smith said he would cure it for him. The smith said he would cure it for him. The smith got a cord and tied one end of it to his tooth and the other end to the anvil. He talked for a good while to the smith and then the smith went over to the fire and lifted a red iron out of the fire. Then he hit it on the anvil a few times and went to hit the neighbour man on the face with the red iron. The man pulled back suddenly when the smith went to hit him and the tooth came out and it was hanging to the cord on the anvil.

There are two forges in the parish and there are four smiths. These forges are situated along the public road. One of them is situated along the main road half way between Monaghan and Clones. The other one is situated at Threemilehouse beside the Roman Catholic Church. These two forges have round shaped roofs and are made of felt and boards. They are tared on top. The doors are wide and arch shaped. The fireplace is in the middle of the forge. The implements the smith uses are:- pinchers, tongs, sledge, and a knife to pear the horse's hoof. The smith repairs the farm implements in the open air such as ploughs and harrows.
The water in which the smith cools his irons has a certain cure. Any one that has warts and washes his hands in this water is cured. The reason why there is a cure in the water is because one time Our Lady was coming along a road and her broach broke she came to a smith's forge and the smith repaired the broach. He cooled the irons which he was working at the broach with in the water. The smith is a very strong many.