School: St Columba's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 070
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- To give a good description of a blacksmiths forge it is very dirty inside. Very often a blacksmith has two forges. He has a big one and a very small one. The large forge is for the horses to stay to be shod. The small forge is for small presses and these presses contain small tools. The blacksmith has many tools. Each of these tools are of great use to all the blacksmiths. The blacksmith has many useful tools.
The names of these are a sledge, a small hammer, a rasp, many tongs, a wooden ruler, a steel ruler, a small rivoting hammer, a knife, a pair of large nippers and a drilling machine. The blacksmith has great use for all of these tools, tools. He uses the sledge for sledgeing at large irons, the small hammer is used for hammering at small irons, the rasp is used for making a horses hoof small, the tongs are used for taking the irons out of the fire, the wooden ruler is used for ruling a pattern for something.
He uses the steel ruler for ruling the hot irons because if he would put the wooden ruler on the hot iron it would probably burn it all up into ashes. He(continues on next page)
