School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 323
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- (continued from previous page)press it, it blows the fire.Beside the hearth there is a place for holding water, called a trough. Every forge has a vice for holding things tight and a small box for holding horse nails, a knife, a big pinchers, and a few rasps for rasping a horse's hoof. There is a block of wood on the middle of the floor and an anvil set on it.Inside the forge is a box for mixing
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Few old forges had chimney stacks. There was a bag on the roof to keep it from going on fire. There was a small box on the roof to draw the smoke and sparks.Outside some forges there is a place for shoeing wheels of carts and cars. In some forges there is a thing called a lathe. The lathe is used for dressing an axle of a cart of car.Some blacksmiths have a cure for a child with rickets. Tom Gormley, Greaghst-eas, can make this cure.
- Collector
- Patrick Gallogly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumraine Glebe, Co. Leitrim
