School: Drogheda, Christian Bros. (roll number 16718)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Br. Ó Reachtabhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0679, Page 326
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In my district there is not many forges. The names of the ones I was told are, Mr. Peter Carrey, Mr. John Lyons and Mr. E O'Neill. These forges are situated near the river Boyne except Mr Carrey's. Mr. Carrey's one is situated in Tullyallen. It is an old shed. He is about thirty years at the job. The implements he uses is a hammer, file, anvil and sledge. He shoes horses, and asses and he also makes ploughs.
Mr Lyons forges is an old shed also. He also does the same work except he does not make ploughs or harrows. He is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Callan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- George's Street, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Carolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- George's Street, Co. Louth
