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School: Dumha-chaisil

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Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 310

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    from it. There are only plain doors and roofs on all those forges and there is one fireplace in each of them. The implements used by smiths are a sledge, big hammer, anvil, punch, hack-saw, pliers, pincers, rasp and wrench. Each of the smiths shoe donkeys and horses, they also make farm implements, such as turf spades, loys, harrow-pins and the parts of ploughs. The only forge-work done in open air is the tightening of cart-tyres, this is done beside the forges. It is believed that forge-water has the power of curing toothache. In a filed beside Tom Gorman's house, about eleven years ago,
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dorothy Mc Donagh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloontaconnagh, Co. Mayo