Smiddy
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Bill: If you moved down here to Invermoriston as early as that how come you were shoeing up the glen.
Willack: We kept the old smiddy going.
Jeanack: We kept the place going.
Willack: You see, when we moved down here, the old fella had to go back up, he was coming down.
Bill: I see. He kept it as a lock-up
Willack: Well we kept the old smiddy for years and years and years.
Jeanack: And they had a smiddy at Ceannacroc and a smiddy at eh...
Willack: Balmacaan?
Bill: And had you the smiddy here at the same time?
Jeanack: Yes
Willack: Yes. Aye, I used to have three or four smiddys. Although I'm only like a tramp the day.
Bill: But there was a smiddy here before this building wasn't there at Invermoriston?
Willack: Aye there was a smiddy here.
Bill: Aye, was that a different smith?
Willack: Oh aye.
Jeanack: Yes, to begin with. And then when he was moving for better he had a wife and family on that and my father told him not to move, he would get a very good place. And they left the wife and bairns here for two years anyway. Gave them the free home and all. And that's the people coming back with the ashes here. They never forgot my father's kindness to them. And they always come to see us.
Willack: Very nice people.
Jeanack: That ones. We told you the granny's ashes came up after new year. And they were in Inchnacardoch that night. I was saying my father was very kind that way.
Bill: So there'd be more than one blacksmith in the glen?
Willack: Och aye.
Jeanack: We had smiths after that. We had two or three at the same time.
Willack: Oh aye, weren't stopping on our own ??? ??? carried on with smiths.
Jeanack: And men in the house.
Willack: My father had men hired men.
Bill: And what about your grandfather?
Willack: Oh well...
Jeanack: My grandfather had his sons.
Willack: He had his sons with him. He had his two sons were blacksmiths.
Bill: That was at the smiddy up at...
Willack: Gearr Loyne, where I was born at Lagan Bàn. At Lagan Bàn. But of course in my grandfather's time there weren't a mode of getting out and in you see. He couldn't move about. He was anchored. As far as I know, he had nothing but his two feet. There were no... But my father, he had a bicycle all his days.
Bill: He never used the horse then?
Willack: No he tried every mode of ???? ??? ???. He was always on the move.