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School: Moylough (C.) (roll number 13832)

Location:
Moylough, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Margaret Devine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0117

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  1. The Local Forge

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    Dan McAllister is our local blacksmith His people have been blacksmiths for the last hundred years. His workshop is called the forge which is situated a few yards from the Tubbercurry cross roads. There is an iron roof on the forge. The door is oblong in shape. There is a little hole in the centre and a horseshoe nailed to the door. In the middle of the floor the anvil stands. The fire and the bellows are in the right hand corner.
    The blacksmith shoes horses and donkeys. he also makes ploughs and harrows and gates. He mends spades shovels, loys and other famr implements
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Parsons
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowreagh (Cooper), Co. Sligo
    Informant
    John Parsons
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowreagh (Cooper), Co. Sligo