School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)

Location:
Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
Teacher:
(name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 396

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  1. There are three forges in use in this parish and two others in ruins. The ancestors of the present smiths worked in these same forges. All of them are situated near a cross and near a stream.
    The roofs are made of wood and the walls of stone and mortar. The smiths shoe horses, ponies, donkeys and wheels.
    They work in the open air. The forge is like a newspaper, because all the news is heard there, and all the young men gather there in the evening to hear the latest news.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromatimore, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
  2. 2. Writer Peggy Creedon, Dromatimore.
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    There are three forges in this parish. one in Rylane, one in Clonmoyle and
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