School: Baile Rua (Buachaillí)

Location:
Ballyroe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádraig Mac Crosáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 084

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  1. The Local Forge, 20/9/38
    There are three forges in Williamstown. Pat the Loughlin owns one and is building another in Williamstown, and Patsy Yanby owns another. It in near a crossroads. It is roofed with slates. Here are what they use a sledge, a bullous, a paneers, a rasp. He makes ploughs and springs tooths and fixes them. When he is putting tyres on wheels he gool out side. This is how goes it he puts a tyre on the ground and he builds it with turf and then he fits it, then he puts the tyre on the wheel and he, hammers it and then he puts water on it and he leanes it so then. Pat Mac Loughlin’s father was a blacksmith.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Smyth
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Corralough, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mr E. Smyth
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Corralough, Co. Galway