School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 325
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- (continued from previous page)Road Station in the townland of Lismagoneway. It is beside a cross-roads called Swan's Cross.
The roof is usually made of galvanized iron or zinc. The bellows blows up and down. They have a long shaft out of them and there is a cow's horn out of them to blow.
The implements the smith uses a hammer, a knife, a vice, a sledge and a pair of tongs. The smith shoes asses and horses. The forge water is supposed to be a cure for warts. The sparks be a cure for warts. The sparks that fly from the red iron is a cure for rickets.
- Collector
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Calliagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Calliagh, Co. Monaghan
