School: Scoil an Chlochair, Cappamore
- Location:
- An Cheapach Mhór, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: An tSr. Fionntán
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- (continued from previous page)get shod. He is the only smith for miles around this locality.
The forge in which he works is very old. It was built by his great grandfather about 90 years ago. There as a great storm on February 27th 1904, and the roof was blown off the forge, but he got it repaired again.
There are three appartments in the forge, the bellows are in one, and the tools and nails and coal are kept in the other. He shoes the horses in the middle one. The anvil is as old as the forge. The other day a corner of it fell off.
There was a five pound note found in the yard of the forge last summer, by a boy named Dannie O'Donoghue. The money belonged to Mr. Gleeson. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
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