School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach

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1. Local Forges (continued)

   

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   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

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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

   Ellie Solan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killedan, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   James Malone

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killedan, Co. Mayo