School: Ráithín, Mainistir Laoighse (roll number 16667)
- Location:
- Raheen, Co. Laois
- Teacher: C. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)sometimes when the weather is warm they shoe horses outside.
The most important things in a smith's forge are the bellows and the anvil. The bellows is made of leather and there is a hole at one end through which the wind comes out and lights the fire. The anvil is a large heavy piece of iron and is left on a block on the forge floor.
The blacksmith has not many tools only a sledge and a forge hammer and a shoeing hammer and a pincers. He also has punches for boring holes in iron and chisels for cutting iron. When he is shoeing a horse he has a knife for cutting the hood and a rasp for filing it. He also has a drilling machine for drilling iron.
- Collector
- Patrick Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosskelton, Co. Laois
