School: An Bóthar Buí (B.), Áth Treasna (roll number 16396)
- Location:
- Boherboy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 164
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- Forges
There are four forges in the Boherbue district. CHristopher O Sullivan and Mick Sheahan are in Boherbue. Near Gorteeragh Cross is Pat Fitzgerald and near Keelnahulla Cross, Daniel O'Connor.
O'Sullivans father was a smith. HE has been dead for 40 years.
Forges have been in hands of the O'Connors of Keelnahulla for a long time also.
All these forges are near cross-roads. They are just the size of an ordinary room. They are coursed with boards and felt and are tarred. The doors are just ordinary doors. There is one fire-place in each on a raised platform. At the back of the platform is a large bellow worked by leverage. Those were not of course made locally.
The smith uses an anvil, pineers, rasp, knife, hammer, sledge, vice.
Farm implements are not made in any of these forges but gates are made by most smiths. Sometimes also they make grates and cranes for holding hangers for pots.
The smiths bond wheels in the open air. They make a big fire on a site where a kind of shape into which they place the week is constructed, and here the bonding is done.
All these forges curse and are entries of story-telling(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Galvin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Islandbrack, Co. Cork
