School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 188
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- (continued from previous page)number to the wholesale manufactures or their agents. Horses even enjoy a happy time going unshod in the fields as the motor cars etc give them lots of leisure.
It is a long time since cattle were shod, has not since local fairs were estabished.
There were leather shoes secured by a stout thong immediatly the hoof. It was more a shoemakers job than a smiths.
Smiths are nearly always men of extraordinary strength mostly intented from their fathers who were strong and thus tendency was increased exercise slending the hot iron.
Yes news and gossip is still discussed in the forges. A remarkable fact is that the news or gossip loses nothing in the telling.
- Collector
- Dan Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballinglen, Co. Mayo
