School: Achadh Luachra
- Location:
- Aghaloory, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hárdaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 024
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- (continued from previous page)fire place in the blacksmiths forge. The blacksmith shoes, horses and asses. The tools he uses when he is working are the anvil, hammer, sledge, pincers and a buffer. He fixes ploughs, harrows and spades. The bellows is made from wood and hide of some animal. The seventh son of a blacksmith has the cure of the rickets. Some of the forges are built beside a stream or a crossroads. It is said that if a blacksmith washes his hands in the water which he cools his iron he is refreshed and made strong.
- There are a good many old houses in the country now. I do not no if any accounts locally of houses which had no glass for the windows. The windows were(continues on next page)
