School: Áth na bhFearchan (roll number 5500)

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1. The Local Forge

   

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   There are about twelve forges in the parish of Donaghmoyne, The names of the smiths are. Patrick Mc Garrell, Michael Lenin, Francis Duffy, Peter Paul Duffy, Francis Welsh, John Hamill, Owen Woods, Owen Mc Geongh, Peter Callan, John Murpey, P. J. Mc Ardle and Francis Mc Groder. The most of them have been smiths for seven years. Some of these forges are situated along the roadside and others are beside the cross-roads. All these forges have slated roofs and the doors are made in the shape of a horse shoe. There is one fire place in each forge There is a very big bllows in each of them Some of the bellows wee made eight years ago. The implements that the smith uses are, Tongs, Pincers, hammers, punches, sleges, knife, stump driver, chisels, vice, anvil and poker. The smith shoes horses and asses, they also make ploughs, harrows, pikes and he also shoes wheels and he makes a lot of other farm implements. When a hors loses a shoe he is taken to the forge to be shod. First of all the smith puts an iron in the fire and when it is red he takes it out and hammers it into the shape of a shoe. Then he redens it again and takes it out and makes a shoe of it, then he

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
            1. smithing (~2,389)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Mc Garrell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Aghnafarcan, Co. Monaghan