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School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)

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Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Tomás Diolún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0201, Page 242

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0201, Page 242

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    vice for holding the hot irons and many others. On some forges there is a door the shape of a horse- shoe, others have a a square door. There are many things which a blacksmith can make such as, a grate a tongs and several others kinds if iron things. Some people say that the water which comes out of a forge there is a cure in it for the cold.
    On the long winter nights all the old men of the district gather into the forge and they sit around the big fore telling stories. In frosty weather the blacksmiths
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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
    Mary Moulton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Thomas Fowley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumlease, Co. Leitrim