School: Gort na Gaoithe (roll number 14218)
- Location:
- Tóin le Gaoith, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: M. Ó Lócháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0057
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- (continued from previous page)nine inches in the other, when the bellows is squeezed it sends out a puff of air that keeps the forge fire lighted. Bellows are not made locally.
The smiths tools are sledge hammers, shoeing hammers, pincers, vice, rasp, anvil, chizle and shoe punch.
A black smith shoes horses donkey and genetes, making gates mends farm implements such as ploughs and grubbers but he cannot mend farm implements such as spade or shovel.
Tyres are shod in the open air.
Blacksmiths are said to be lucky. Some Blacksmith has privilage. When a black smith curses over the anvil he has the same power as a priest on the altar.
- Collector
- Peter Martyn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- An Tulaigh, Co. na Gaillimhe
