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School: Cill Bheacáin (B.) (roll number 13659)

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Bekan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
P.S. Mac Donnchadha
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    called the "muzzler".
    The smith only makes horse-shoes, gates, ploughs, harrows and scufflers now, but long ago he made fire cranes, pot-hooks, nails, fish hooks, bill-hooks and tongs.
    The anvil he has presently weights two
    cwts and the last one was one and a half cwts.
    It is left on a piece of a trunk of a tree about three feet high.
    During the troubled times many men that were wanted by the English hid in the place where the bellows are now.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Frank Kirrane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonbulban, Co. Mayo