School: Mounttrenchard, Leamhchoill (roll number 2540)
- Location:
- Mounttrenchard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Nuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0481, Page 165
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- (continued from previous page)is an important implement, and one that he could not do without. It is very like the small hand bellows which we use at home. Except of course that it is about fifty times bigger, and is worked by a handle. I love to blow the smith's bellows. It makes a loud blow, and makes the fire glow very quickly.There is a bit of trade in lighting the smith's fire. He uses only slaked coal, and the fire must be very close and glowing white, so as to redden the iron properly.The vice is a very useful implement. It is always fixed firmly on a board beside the window, where there is good light. It is used to hold things which the smith could not hold firmly enough with his hands or with a pincers. For example, unscrewing rusty nuts, or(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilteery, Co. Limerick
