School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 117
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- There are four forges in this parish and they are all along the road. They have slate roofs and one fire. In hot weather they shoe horses outside. Shoeing cows has never been known in this parish. The smith repairs all sorts of tools such as picks, axes, harrows, ploughs. The door of the forge is an ordinary door. The forge is a great place for story telling and yarns.
- Collector
- Brian Harkin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Harkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
- There are five forges in the parish. There are two in Dunfanaghy, the names of the smiths are Moore, and McGarvey. There is another in Cashelmore, Stewart is the(continues on next page)
