School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 153
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- (continued from previous page)covered with canvas. The tools the black-smiths use are a vice, a bellows, an anvil, a sledge, a hammer, a pincers, a tongs, a rasp and a fire shovel. The work the black smith does is, puts shoes in horsed and asses, he also fixed ploughs, harrows and scufflers, everything connection with the farmer. He also makes iron gates. A smith is a very useful man, and the people could not do without him. If you take anything out of a forge without the smith knowing it the people say that if the smith curses you something is sure to happen you sometime. William Dolan is the best clack-smith int he district and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laurence Mullins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brierfield South, Co. Galway
- Informant
- William Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Brierfield South, Co. Galway
