School: Cuileann Uí Chaoimh (B.), Sráid an Mhuilinn (roll number 4440)
- Teacher: Ruaidhrí Ó Cadhla
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- There are forges in this district. The smiths are Batt Corcoran, Jerh Hickey, Paddy Hickey, and Tom Herlihy. Mostly all of their ancestors have been smiths. One of them in Churchill, one in Lisnaboy, one in Knockduff, one in Glountane. Mostly all of them are near streams and cross-roads. One of them is covered with slate, two with corrigated iron and one with thatch. The door of every one of them is about a foot or half foot from the ground. There is only one fire in each one of them. The bellows are different, in one forge the bellows is the same as they used long ago by moving a handle up and down. In the three others the bellows are the same a handle in the side of a thing like a pump and it is twisted around in a circle. They use a hammer, a sledge, a rasp, a pair of tongs, a knife. They shoe horses and asses. They make no farm implements but mend them when they are broken. The work is shoeing and banding wheels making gate's and so on. shoeing and banding wheels is done in the open air. One privelege they have is they can go before the King dressed the same as they worked in the forge. There is no forge in the village and it is said that no iron would ever redden there since.
- Collector
- John Kelleher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullaghroe South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Kelleher
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Mullaghroe South, Co. Cork
