School: Páirc na bhFiadh (roll number 15585)

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1. Local Forges

   

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   There is only one forge in Boyle. Mr. Rice owns it. He makes horse shoes and wheels out-side. Sometimes people gather in the forge on cold nights to hear stories.
   The doors of a forge are often made the shape of horse-shoe and there are seven marks left to correspond to the number of nails in a horse-shoe which number is usually seven and perhaps six for small horses.
   It the interior of the forge there is a chunk of iron weighing three or four cwt. and it rests on a block of wood. It is called the anvil. At one end of the anvil is the horn.
   In a corner of the forge is the bellows with which the smith blows the fire to redden the iron our of which horse-shoes are made.
   Beside the bellow is a trough of cold water for cooling the shoes after they are made. There is a beautiful poem about a forge by the poet Longfellow. It tells how the children look in the

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
            1. smithing (~2,389)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lily Smyth

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carrowmore, Co. Roscommon