School: Scoil na Mainistreach (roll number 1793)
- Location:
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An Br. P.C. Mac Niallghuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0455, Page 047
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- In Killarney there are four forges. Three of these are owned by o Sheas and the other by Darcy. The Sheas have been blacksmiths for generations. There forges are situated in High St, and each one is about a hundred yards from the other.Two of the forges are seperated from the smiths house but the other is built in a lower room of a house. This one has a slate roof but the others are covered with tarred felt. The first two have sliding door's but the other has an ordinary door. There is but one fire in each forge, and near each one is a bellows. When a small wheel is turned these bellows pump air through a pipe into the fire. Only two of the smiths make implements. they make ploughs, harrows and spades. When they make bands for wheels they build a large fire on a flat round stone. They put a large bar of iron and when it is red they form it into a wheel.It is not likely that these men made arms as the tide of fighting rarely reached Killarney.
- Informant
- Mrs J. O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Inchycullane, Co. Kerry
