School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- (continued from previous page)parish, James Hope's and John Dempsey. James Hope forge is situated on the side of the main road about five miles from Ballina. It is built in Rathglass, beside Michael McKenzie's public house.
It is a small, thatched house with a common door like any other house. The door is made of timber. There is a small chimney in the forge. There is a bellows in it for blowing the fire. It is made of two pieces of timber, and leather nailed around about on it. There is a hole beside the fire holding water to cool the irons.
He shoes wheels out in the open air in summer He also shoes horses and asses. He fixes ploughs and harrows. His father before him was a black-smith. The implements that he has are hammers, chisels, pincers, anvil, wrenches. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Celia Hallinan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Edward Mc Hale
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castleconor, Co. Mayo