School: Cor Liath (2) (roll number 14380)
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Róise Ní Dhéaghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 160
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- There is only one forge in this district of Corlea. It is owned by a man called Jack Boylan and his people have been blacksmiths for three generations. Boylan's forge is situated at a crossroads and beside a river.
The forge is attached to the dwelling house and from the outside, one would know it was a forge, except for bundles of horse shoes lying about. There is just a plain double door at the entrance.
The bellows were not made locally. the smith uses an anvil, bellows, hammers of different shapes and sizes a punch and tongs. He makes these himself with the exception of the avil and the bellows.
He makes farm implement and gates. To make a gate he cuts the iron in bars of the required size and bores holes in the posts to hold the cross bars. He reddens these bars and welds them together.
He shoes wheels outside the forge door. The smiths were and are still looked(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charlie Mitchell
- Gender
- Male
