What is recorded here

George Tayler lost his St Johnstown tannery, hide stock and bark during the 1641 attacks, an injury recorded at a hundred pounds. The tannery has no visible marker, but it may have stood where water, bark and labour still belong. Tayler did not merely own a house; he made a dangerous local economy in which skin, smoke and strength turned into use.

Associated with the 17th-century settlement of St Johnstown (LF009-023----). The 1641 depositions record that the 'Tanner', 'George Tayler of St Johnstowne' was attacked by Irish rebels and lost ownership of 'his Tannhouse & his stock of hides, and Barke worth £100' (TCD, MS 817, fol. 170r). The precise location of the tannery has not been identified. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 August 2013

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