School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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- (continued from previous page)best is that owned by Eugene Canty. It is situated near a cross-roads and there is a little stream running near it. It is covered with corrugated iron and is round in shape. The door in this forge is a large one and can be opened to each side. There is one fireplace in this forge. The bellows is up on a bench behind the fireplace. There is an iron handle in the bellows and that is moved up and down and the wend comes out a pipe and enters the fireplace and so blows the fire. This bellows was not made locally. The implements which the smith has to do his work are an anvil, a pincers, a sledge, a chisel, a punch, a vice, hammer, a forge-tongs, a rasp, a brace(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tom Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dysert, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dysert, Co. Kerry