The theme of the walk will be Forges, Forgeries, Fakes and Fortifications in Banagher, 1620s- 2020s. The walk will look at pieces of ironwork along the Main Street from Saint Paul’s Church to the Martello Tower. These will include railings, gates, commemorative plaques, a crane, remains of ironwork on Banagher Bridge, an iron memorial cross, iron grave surrounds, and a mortsafe, etc., etc. Former locations of forges along the street will be visited, and local blacksmiths remembered and their work celebrated.

Literary fakes and forgeries will be divulged and expanded upon from the lives of Sir Mathew De Renzy and Charlotte Brontë.

Finally, ironwork pieces in the Napoleonic fortifications at the bridge will be viewed, and the 2025 blacksmiths’ extravaganza will be visited.

The walk will start at 12.45 p.m. at Saint Paul’s Church after Noon Day Service and will finish in the Bridge Barrack Yard at 2 p.m.where an amazing gathering of blacksmiths will display their work and wares.

The Martello Tower Bookshop will also appear in the Bridge Barrack Yard on Saturday afternoon, 2:00 pm to 6:00 p.m., after a field trip to the bog iron ore deposits on Clongawny Bog, near Banagher.