School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)
- Location:
- Rush Hall, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Lochlainn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 246
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Rush Hall, Mountrath
- XML Page 246
- XML “Local Forges”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)In this district Seymour at Clonohill Cross Cordelle at Cappinarrow and Prescotts at Shiels Cross. The two former have had the trade in the famil for generations past.The latter is the first of his family to the trade. Shoeing horses making and repairing most of the farm implements is carried on here also the taking and delivering the news of the country side. The forge walls are of cement and boards,while the roofs are also boarded. As one smith is able for the work in each case with the gid of an occasional Journey man one fire place is sufficient. This is a square piece of mason work with the fire on top blown by a one pipe bellows working with a lever up an down the binding of wheels is done in the open air,the belief that(continues on next page)
