School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 169
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- (continued from previous page)mattocks, pickaxes and various other articles of this kind, all which are made in the factory by a special machine nowadays. Although the forge and smith are still existing all over the country. There is a mecanical advancement in that trade and the use of small machines in his shop and many up-to-date conveniences have made the smith perfect in his trade. In olden times the smith had first the fire with a self-made bellows, a hammer, tongs and a block of iron to serve as an anvil. The work done was only an imitation of the article intended as without the proper anvil no curves or angles could be made. The trade was generally a thing that passed from father to son. A person who wanted horse-shoes made, procured the smith with the iron.
- Collector
- Julia Harrington
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr John J. Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Greenane, Co. Cork
