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School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0119, Page 250

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    their requirements to the smith so situated.
    The forge is a fairly large-sized room on the ground floor, and has an elevated platform of stonework, about three feet high on which is placed the bellows for blowing the fire into a glowing heat. In olden times the village smithy was roofed with scraws but nowadays it is roofed with slates or corrugate iron. The door in many cases is formed in the shape of a horse-shoe.
    The bellows which the smith uses is a very large pattern of the ordinary house
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí eacnamaíocha
        1. gnó agus ceird (~4,680)
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ellie Solan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cill Liadáin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
    Informant
    James Malone
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cill Liadáin, Co. Mhaigh Eo