School: Loughshinny (roll number 8434)
- Location:
- Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: James Monks
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 97
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There are three forges in the Parish of Skerries. Willie Cartin is the owner of one of he forges. His brother and father were smiths before him. His forge is situated in the middle of Skerries. The forge is big. It has a thatched roof and cement walls and is well built. He shoes horses, asses, and he fixes steam-boat's tubs, makes gates, harrows, ploughs, fixes iron parts of cars. On a fine day he does some of the work outside. There is just an ordinary door on it. The bellows is big and able to blow the fire well. They have special kind of coal for the fire which he lights with straw. He never uses sticks. There is only one fire place in his forge. He has a barrel of water in a corner for dripping the hot iron(continues on next page)
