School: Taghmon (roll number 1762)
- Location:
- Taghmon, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: John J. Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 243
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“There are three forges in the Parish of Taghmon.”
There are three Forges in the Parish of Taghmon:
One in Chapel St. owned by Kelly's
one in Church St owned by Carton's and one in Harristown owned by Grady's.
These forges have been owned by those people for many years.They are all one storied buildings with wooden slides or doors for windows and slate roofs on two of them, and on Kelly's a wooden roof. There is one large open fire-place in each forge and a big bellows. The smith uses a large hammer, chisle, tongs, pincers and an anvil.He shoes horses and asses, but not cattle. Farm implements such as ploughs harrows are not made in these forges but in olden times were made in "Grady's"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Annie Larkin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70