School: Tobar Ruadh
- Location:
- Toberroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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- There is not any blacksmiths in my village, but there are two blacksmiths only about a mile from my house. A blacksmith needs to be very strong as he has a lot of hard work to do. The place where a blacksmith works is called a forge.Every blacksmith has a lot of instruments in his forge for working with. He keeps an anvil, a sledge, a bellows, a hammer and a lot of nails. A blacksmith does have a lot of work to do such as putting on shoes on horses and asses, and long ago the blacksmiths used to put shoes on the cows. A blacksmith also makes gates and repairs pots and gates.Long ago there was a very strong blacksmith in Cloon-line, Kilconly, Tuam and he was so strong he could catch a very big stone about eight stone weight in his hand and hold it in the palm of his hand for about twenty minutes and he would not know he had the stone in his hand at all as he was very strong and no other man around the place could do it.Long ago there was a man whose name was John Burke in Cloon-line, Kilconly, Tuam and he owned a forge as he was a blacksmith(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Naughton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonlyon, Co. Galway
- Informant
- James Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Cloonlyon, Co. Galway
