School: Teamhair, Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Taur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Súillleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 602
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- There are five forges in this parish
namely Mr. Allen's, Mr. Bryanan's,
Mr. Forde's, Mr. Fitzpatrick's those
four are in Newmarket town. The
local forge is in Taur Lane owned
by Mr. Fitzpatrick. His father and
Grand-father were smiths.
The forge is a low building
made of stone and mortar and
covered with slate.
The fire place is a raised platform
about 2½ ft high and about 3 or
4 ft wide with a bellows at the
back of it, getting into the fire.
The bellows is made of leather, with
a lever to work up and down,
the leather compresses the air and
blows it into the fire. Bellows are
not made locally.
The implements, the smith works
in his forge, are a fire, a bellows, an
anvil, a sledge, hammers, pincers,
rasps, tongs, a knife, a vice, a feller,
a traveller, a box wrench and
smaller ones, a punch, cold chisel
and a gad or stamp.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mc Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Taur, Co. Cork
- Informant
- E. O' Connell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
