School: Bigstone, Baltinglas (roll number 14643)
- Location:
- Ballyraggan, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Héilighe
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- (continued from previous page)takes it out and puts it on the anvil and hammers it with a hammer.
Long ago the smiths used to make ploughs and harrows and spades and shovels. They dont make them now but they mend them. They make the sock of the plough with a piece of iron The iron is put in the fire and when it is red the smith takes it out and fits it into the plough.
In olden times the ploughs were made of iron but they are made of steel and other materials now. The people used wooden ploughs mostly in olden times
When the smith is going to shoe the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeen North, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Christopher Foley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigeen North, Co. Kildare
