School: Glenmaquin (roll number 9748)
- Location:
- Glenmaquin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eilís Bean Uí Leathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1102, Page 112
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People do not send them gifts but they pay him well for his work.
There are no local beliefs or stories connected with the forge.
Willie Wilson's father was a smith and I think his grandfather was a smith also.
- There are two or three forges in the parish of Raphoe. The one I know best is McConlogue's. They live a quarter of a mile above our school. The McConlogue's ancestors were smiths.
It has a wooden roof on it. The door opens in two parts. There is one fireplace in it. John McConlogue uses a hammer, a knife, rasp, vice and anvil and forge tongs and chisel and he burns black smiths coal.
The smith can make some parts of a plough. He can make a grubber. He can put a shoeing on the cart wheel in the open air. This smith has no power(continues on next page) - Collector
- Flo Hetherington
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenmaquin, Co. Donegal
