School: Garrygaug, Kilmacow

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1. The Forge (continued)

   

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   of hammers, chisels, cutters and vice. Two grips for binding wheels, with a large mill stone placed in the opean air for binding and a pool of water to cast it in when bound together with taps for making bolts of all sizes. He can take the most obstinate horse in hands and shoe him but sometimes he finds it hard to handle the donkey.
   I never had the pleasure of seing cattle shod, but for the past four or five years they should have been. I know farmers to have driven them from fair to fair and could not sell them even at any price. Fifty years ago we had two of the said smiths that were noted for making ploughs, grubbers, harrows, pikes, spears, billocks and gates. At the present time none of them are made at the local forges. The chill plough left the smith little to do

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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

   John Walsh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballynacooly, Co. Kilkenny

   Informant

   Mr Quin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 70

   Address

   Milltown, Co. Kilkenny