School: Carn (roll number 12537)
- Location:
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Miadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)when the smiths have to put tyres on carts they light big fires in the open air, to warm the tyres so that they would be able to get them on the wheels easily.
Long ago the smiths thought that there were ghosts in the forges, but they were not ghosts. They were old tramps who had no homes and they were glad to get into a forge for shelter. If the forge door was closed when a tramp would come he would stand outside until he would get the smith gone out and then he would go in and sit by the fire.
When the smith would come in, the tramp would hide.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortygara, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Michael Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortygara, Co. Sligo
