School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach
- Location:
- Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)bellows, but being kept in a fixed position, it can be worked by the hand. The bellows was generally made locally by hand in the past, but can now be ordered through a hardware merchant and are mostly machine-made.
The principal tools the smith uses are the sledge, hammer, rasp and the anvil. The smith shoes all our horses, donkeys, and mules; and used to formerly be employed in making most iron farm implements such as spades, shovels, pick-axes, harrow-pins etc.
Some of the smith's work has to be done in the open air as for instance the "shoeing" of wheels for vehicles. For this(continues on next page)- Collector
- Ellie Solan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killedan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Malone
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killedan, Co. Mayo