School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)tongs, pincers, shovel, rasp and the sledge. The bellows were not made locally. The bellows is made of leather and timber and there is an iron pipe from the mouth of the bellows to the fireplace. There is a long handle on the bellows to blow it. The smith shoes a lot of horses, asses and jennets. He does not make any farm implements nowadays but he made them long ago because the farmers had no ploughs.
- There are four forges in my parish. One is at the Sweep owned by Jack Power. There is another at the Creamery in which Mattie Mansfield is working. There are also two more, one at Ross owned by John Keane and the other in Kilmeaden owned by Michael Kearney. All those smiths in my parish are smiths because their people had been smiths before them. All those(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs O' Keeffe
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
