School: Scoil Naomh Eoin, Bréachmhuigh (roll number 13781)
- Location:
- Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: A.M. Mac Taidhg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089D, Page 21_048
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- (continued from previous page)strong fellow. Many blacksmiths are farmers and other things besides blacksmiths. The blacksmiths can also make a tongs and always has one in the forge ready for his own use. When he wants to bend an iron he puts it in amonest a lot of red coals, and when the iron is red hot he taks it out with a tongs, and puts it on the anvil and he can bend it to any shape he likes. Sometimes it may be a horseshoe form some horse with a big hoof.
A blacksmiths forge is a dirty place it is always full of smoke and the blacksmith himself is nearly always dirty(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maighréad Ní Neachtain
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tomás Ó Neachtáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
