School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs B. Farrelly
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- (continued from previous page)makes farm implement such as ploughs, harrows, spades, shovels, pikes and axex.
There is a part of the forge work done in the open air. When he is putting the shoeing on the wheel of a cart it is done outside. There is a big iron wheel on the ground and there is a fire of turf put in the middle of it, then there is a narrow iron band left in the fire and when it is red hot it is hammered down on the wheel of the cart.
There is a belief that forge water cures warts. It is said that smiths have the power to cure a disease called thrush.
Farmer's who get their horses shod with the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Madge Hanratty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- James Gillic
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghergoole, Co. Cavan
