School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)It is round on top and there is pipe going from it to the fire. It has also a handle. The handle is pulled up and down when the smith wants to blow the fire. Bellows were not made in the district. The implements the smith uses are the bellows, an anvel, a sledge, a hammer, a tongs, a drilling machine swages, and nails, punches, cutters are used for cutting iron, and a vice. The smith puts shoes on horses and donkeys. He doesn't put shoes on cows or ballocks. The smith makes, ploughs scullers. He puts pins in harrows.
- Collector
- Philomena Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway