School: Cill Bhonáin, Droichead na Bandan (roll number 1271)

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1. Old Forges (continued)

   

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   timber and leather. There are two small doors inside in the bellows. They were not made locally.
   The implements the smith uses in his work are:- pinchers, anvil, vice, hammer, sledge, clift, hardy, bevil, fuller, stamp, pritchel, swages, and punches.
   The smith shoes horses and cattle. Long ago the smith used put half-shoes on cattle.
   Long ago the smith used make farm implements such as spades, ploughs, grafains, socs of ploughs, harrows, pikes, axles of butts, pig rings, nails furzesides bill hook, and cranes. Usually the smith made everything he was asked.
   The smith shoes horses. He gets the sole knife and cuts the hoof. Next, he does the "stripping off". He then gets the clift and he puts it into a certain hole in the anvil. He puts the iron on top of the clift and strikes 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

   James Creed

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Aherla More, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr Cornelius O Leary

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Aherla More, Co. Cork