School: Drumaweir (roll number 5228)
- Location:
- Drumaweer, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 129
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- A Travelling Man
Some sixty years ago there was a man who annually travelled around these parts known as Heatherington the Blacksmith. He would go into shops along the way and work at any kind of iron, making tongs, pot-hooks, putting handles in spades, feet into pots and mending shot guns and clocks. As a matter of fact he was a genius at this kind of work. The people of the district around when they cracked or broke an article would carefully lay it aside with the remark that it would be mended when Heatherington the Blacksmith called on his rounds at night he would sit in the forge until bed-time and tell stories of his rounds to the crowds of men and boys
- Collector
- Cahal Mc Cormick
- Gender
- Male
