School: Louth (C.) (roll number 3252)
- Location:
- Louth, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chasaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 317
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- (continued from previous page)The doors are just plain. There is only one fire in both of them. The bellows are in a little shed and it comes through a hole into the forge. Then there is a long stack and you pull the sack by means of a little chain.
the smiths tools are the anvil, pliers, tongs, bellows, sledge, hammer, vice, iron. He mends spades, shovels, grains, hay forks and all sorts of farming implements. He shoes horses asses. There is a cure for warts in the water in which the smith tools the iron. Long ago there was great regard for the smith. It is said that the smith refused to make the nails to nail Our Lord to the cross and the tinkers made them and ever since misfortune follows the tinkers.
I got this information from my father Patrick Kirk Channonrock Louth.
- Collector
- Maggie Kirk
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Chanonrock, Co. Louth
