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School: Clara (2)

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Clara, Co. Offaly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0807, Page 444

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    tongs, anvils and nails.
    Blacksmiths in this parish shoe horses and asses and mend farm implements such as ploughs and harrows. When the balcksmith is putting an iron tyre on a wheel he has to light a fire of turf to make the iron tyre.
    There is always a kind of flag outside a forge on which the blacksmith sets the wheel of a cart and then he takes the tyre out of the fire with a tongs and hammers it on the wheel with the sledge.
    Then he sprinkles water on the wheel to tighten the tyre on to the wheel.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Whitehead
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Erry (Maryborough), Co. Offaly