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 170
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- Many changes have taken place since the days of our ancestors, and one of these was a forge which was a great advantage to the Island people. This is not on Beare Island nowadays but there is one in Castletown and when the people want implements made they only give the measure of the horse-shoe or whatever it may be.
The forge which was in Beare Island was in the centre, owned by Mr Harrington and horse-shoes were made more than any other implements because in those days every farmer owned a horse. On that occasion numerous horse-shoes were made but each man would bring the iron for his implements and on a certain day of the week all the horses were shod. Mattocks cranes, racks etc. were also made in this forge but they were not so nicely shaped as those which are made now. The furnace was composed chiefly of turf in those days because coal was never burnt. Two or three shillings they charged for each set of horse-shoes and the nails were not as long as those made nowadays.
- Collector
- Brigid Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr M. O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
