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1. Local Forges (continued)

   

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   wall around the forge is a bench on which pieces of iron, horse shoes, pinncers, sledges, hammers, pliers etc. are kept. Near the trough of water is a window.

   The smith shoes horses, asses and mules but he never shoes cattle. He makes ploughs, harrow-pins, shovels, spades and fire-tonges. This work is done by putting bass of iron in the fire and when they are red taking them out with fire-tonges, putting them on the anvil and hammering them into the shape required. They are cooled in the trough of water and reveted to-gether with bolts.

   When the smith is putting on shoeing on carts he goes out into the air as outside the door is a cement ring for that purpose.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
            1. smithing (~2,389)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Connolly

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Tattygare, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Patrick Mc Cabe

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   79

   Address

   Tattygare, Co. Monaghan