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« on: Thursday 11 September 14 08:50 BST (UK) »
If you look at Malky's first link, Ammab, you'll see a Smithy just across the lane from the farm. I presume that's where John Corbutt was blacksmith. The smithy is no longer there, though the farmer says there are a lot of rocks about that look like it was a building. Considering Kilantringan's size and importance at one time there is amazingly little information. Kilantringan was a large property (at least 12,000 acres) but the main house is gone and no-one seems to know exactly where it was. John Corbutt was blacksmith at Kilsaintninian in the 1896 census so he was obviously here for a while. John M'Millan was registered as a farmer at the same time, but earlier dates show five or six families registered here at the same time, so I presume there was quite a little community here, though all that is left now is the Farm (down to 25 acres) and Kilantringan Cottage. Blaeu's map of South Carrick of 1654, based on Timothy Pont's survey of 1590 shows Kilantringan, though it's position is vague. The earliest Ordnance Survey map I've seen is from 1856 and this shows the smithy and farm for the first time. If you Google 'McMicking family' there is more information about Kilantringan as they owned Kilantringan for centuries, but it's just information about the Kilantringan Estate, and I've never seen any mention of the Smithy, or names of it's workers.
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