School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- There are two forges in this parish one of each end of Ballycastle town. The name of the smiths are McHugh and Clark.
There fathers were smiths also. The forges are roughly built and covered with thatch.
There is little doing in that trade now as the motor cars, ploughs, lorries and buses etc give horse an easy time but they are still necessary for small farmers.
The smith has as a tongs, hammer, rasp, knife, large bellows and the anvil on which to hammer the hot iron.
Few asses are shod in these parts but any who appear on the public roads must be shod or the Garda will see that the law inforced. Prevention of cruelty to animals.
Long ago all farm implements were made in the forge. Now only odd jobs are done at the forge.
The plough is numbered and any plant can be obtained easily. By sending the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dan Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballinglen, Co. Mayo
