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School: Glenmaquin (roll number 9748)

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Glenmaquin, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eilís Bean Uí Leathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1102, Page 112

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    There are two or three forges in the parish of Raphoe. The one I know best is McConlogue's. They live a quarter of a mile above our school. The McConlogue's ancestors were smiths.
    It has a wooden roof on it. The door opens in two parts. There is one fireplace in it. John McConlogue uses a hammer, a knife, rasp, vice and anvil and forge tongs and chisel and he burns black smiths coal.
    The smith can make some parts of a plough. He can make a grubber. He can put a shoeing on the cart wheel in the open air. This smith has no power
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