School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Deagha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 449
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- There are four forges in this parish The names of the owners are R. Fahy, B. Keaveney, T. Walsh, and the Connelly brothers.
Their fathers before them were never blacksmiths
One of the forges are in the town and one on the outskirts of the town and the other two are in the country.
All the forges are galvanised. There are two doors in the forges. There is only one fire-place in each forge.
The bellows are like a big balloon worked by a stick tied with a rope.
The bellows are bought in a shop. The blacksmith shoes asses, horses but not cattle.
The smith makes farm implements. he also makes, gates, grates, tongs, and he repairs ploughs, harrows, mowing machines, and bicycles.
He does alot of work in the open(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Gilligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eskeromullacaun, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Martin Gilligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eskeromullacaun, Co. Galway
