School: Cluain Catha (roll number 16291)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Dll. Ó Módhráin Ss. Mac Eoghain
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- (continued from previous page)there is a wooden handle for pulling up and down and this blows the fire. There is one fireplace in it.
The smith used many implements while at work namely a hammer for driving in nails, a pinchers for drawing them out, a punch for boring the hole in the shoe, a sledge for hammering the iron into what ever shape he wishes, and a knife. He shoes horses and asses but he does not shoe cattle.
There are not any farm implements made in the local forge but all kinds of implements are mended there.
In Summer when the weather is hot the tyres on the wheels of carts(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 92
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon