School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)
- Location:
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 397
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Achadh Bolg
- XML Page 397
- XML “Local Forges”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)one in Coachford. Mr Allen owns the forge in Rylane and Patrick Twomey and Daniel Twomey the forges in Clonmoyle and coachford respectively. Their fathers were also smiths. All three forges are situated near cross roads.
The forges are roofed with timber and felt. Horse shoes are nailed on the doors to show that they are forges. There is only one fireplace.
Bellows have gone out of fashion and are replaced by a fire machine. The implements used are, hammers, chisels, anvils, sledges, rasps and files. He doesn't make farm implements but he mends them. He shoes horses outside the forge door.
Forges are great centres for card parties and story telling.
- Collector
- Peggy Creedon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromatimore, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs D. Creedon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Dromatimore, Co. Cork
