School: Castlerock N.S. (roll number 13242)
- Location:
- Drummartin, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Frank Haran
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- (continued from previous page)nippers, a hammer, an anvil and a sledge.
The smith makes ploughs, Harrows, spades, grapes and gates.
The shoeing of wheels is done in the open air.
This is done outside the forge at a stream, at the stream there is a round cement stone.
The tyre is placed on this stone and the fire built around it.
When the iron is red he takes it out of the fire and shapes it into the exact size of the wheel, then he cools it and hammers it on to the wheel.
People send gifts of turf to the smith.
- Collector
- Elizabeth Bowie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cabragh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Miss Ellen O Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappagh, Co. Sligo
