D'oh! sent it by mistake before I'd finished as usual!
Penguin, it would help if we could see the translation you already have. Many of the words have several meanings, which makes it difficult to translate for those of us who are not native speakers. If we could see the translation we could probably tell whether anything was missing from it.
Do you know who ran the workshop?
I did wonder whether the boiling of the potatoes could have been connected with the illicit production of whisky, in which case excisemen might have confiscated all the apparatus involved.
The second verse seems to refer to a number of articles and not just a missing pot:"Two of them were yours (singular)and one of them was mine. Another one belonged to Eoin...".