Scoil: Meelick (B.)

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   for a shoe, which is generally about 17 inches long. He then reddens it in the fire, and he makes it into the shape of a shoe. He then grooves the shoe and cools it in a trough of cold water. The tools a smith uses when shoeing a horse are a knife which he calls a botoon, a rasp, a hammer, a cold chisel and a pincers. When the smith is sharpening the teeth of a harrow he reddens the old teeth and puts a sharp point on each tooth. The blacksmith will only shoe wheels; the spokes and felloes and the stock must be together before he will shoe any wheel. The smith measures the wheel and band. If the band is too big, he reddens it in the fire and cuts a bit off with a clift. He welds the band again.
   People say that the forge water is good for a sore on a person's hand. It is also a cure if a horse had a sore mouth.
   Meelick forge was built in the year 1812

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   James J. O Rourke

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Knockalisheen, Co. Clare

   Faisnéiseoir

   Thomas Boland

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   55

   Gairm bheatha

   Labourer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Knockalisheen, Co. Clare