School: Na Tearmoinn (B.) (roll number 8931)
- Location:
- Tarmon East, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 340
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- The Forge is 20 feet long, 12 feet high, and 10 feet wide. It has a covering of slate and others have iron. There is one fire place in it. The fire place is in the middle of the floor. The bellows are used for blowing the fire. There is a big long handle to it and when you shove it up and down it will light the fire. It is wide at one side and it is coming to a point at the other side. The bellows were not made locally. It was from Dublin they used to buy them.
The implements a smith uses are two hammers, a sledge, a shovel, a saw, a punch, an anvil, a pliers, a rasp, a pinchers, a file, a knife, several kinds of wrenches, and a piece of iron with three legs under it to put the horses' legs up on it to turn the nails in the hoof. The Smith shoes horses, ponies, jennets, and donkeys. The smith does not make any farm implements. He works in the open air shoeing wheels. Beside the river he works. The people say there is a cure in the water in which the smith cools his irons. The smiths have special priveleges at Christmas. People give them gifts.
- Collector
- William Holly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tarmon West, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Paddy Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tarmon West, Co. Kerry
