School: Áthán (B.), Lios na Groighe (roll number 14173)
- Location:
- Ahane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Héalaithe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0523, Page 477
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)broad. It is if built of stones and slates.
The doorway is the shape of a horse show. There are two fire places in it. They use the two of them when they are busy. There also bellows in it. The bellows are made of leather and timber. There is a big handle out of each bellow and you pull the handle up and down to blow the fire. They mend ploughs and harrows and mowing machines etc.
They shoe the wheels in the open air. Coal is not used for shoeing wheels. Turf that is used because the coal is too hot for the bands.
