School: Ramelton
- Location:
- Rathmelton, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Ó Domhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)shoes. The fireside is called a hearth. The bellows is used for blowing the fire.The way a smith makes a horse shoe is, he cuts away all the worn hoof. Then he puts the iron in the fire and blows the bellows on it. When the iron is red he takes it out again and hammers it into the form of a horse shoe. He then bores hole's in it and then hammers it on the horse's hoof with nails.Forge water will cure warts if the warts are dipped into it. The sparks which fly from the red iron are a good cure for bursting a boil if the light on top of it.
- Collector
- Kathleen Greer
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Glen Lower, Co. Donegal