School: Áth na gClaidheamh (roll number 10537)
- Location:
- Annagleve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)which is worked in up and down motions. The implements of the blacksmiths are a punch, hammer, tongs, pliers, clinch, cutter, an anvil, a stone trough, a vice and a roundstone with a hole in the middle, which is outside the forge for shoeing wheels. The blacksmiths shoes horses and asses, and makes and repairs farm implements.
The blacksmiths shoe wheels in the open air in the summer time. The sparks from the anvil are gathered an mixed through the food as a cure for diseases in hens. The forge water is supposed to be a cure for warts. The blacksmiths have different powers. The third generation of blacksmiths has a cure for rickets. The blacksmiths are always very strong men. The country forge is a meeting place for story-tellers.
- Collector
- Marcella Loughran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cavanaguillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Patrick Loughran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Cavanaguillagh, Co. Monaghan
