School: Machaire Áirne
- Location:
- Magherarny, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Aodhgáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0945, Page 216
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Machaire Áirne
- XML Page 216
- XML “Local Forges”
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
- The forge is a place where horses are shod. The blacksmith uses a rasp, an anvil, a hammer, horse nails and other nails. horse shoes, pieces iron, broken plough old forks, old cart wheels, old gates a through of water, fan bellows and a shoeing knife.
When a horse goes to get shod the black-smith takes a piece of iron, puts it in the fire takes it out puts it on the anvil and bends it round to make it the right shape. He puts it in the fire takes it out and furrows it. Then he makes the holes in it for the nails with the punch. He leaves it round and fits it to the horses foot. If it is not level he dresses the hoof with the shocknife and rasps it with the rasp. Then he cools the(continues on next page)
