School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)

Location:
Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
Teacher:
S. Ó Deagha
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 447

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 447

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)
  2. XML Page 447
  3. XML “Blacksmiths and Forges”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. 447
    Blacksmiths and forges.
    There are four forges in this district and the names of the blacksmiths who owns them:- Bill Keaveney, Roddy Fahy, Pat Conneely, Tom Walsh.
    The people before them were not blacksmiths.
    Two of them are situated in the town and two in the country.
    There are none of them situated on a cross-road.
    The forges of this parish are not thatched but galvanised.
    There are double doors in each forge.
    The bellows are made of a big empty bag of leather and is worked by a wooden handle which is joined on to the bellows and by working that handle up and down the air in the bag blows the fire.
    The most of the bellows around here are bought and cost alot of money.
    Smiths makes gated, grates, and tongs.
    The smiths puts on rims on cart
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Oliver Bruen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
    Informant
    T. Raftery