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School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)

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Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 054

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    praised her and she grew proud. At the same moment the coal burned her. Then she cursed him saying.
    "Curse on your rooktee
    You made me break my duty
    For vain thinking of my beauty and my bloom."
    Wheels are banded in the open air near a stream. A big fire is lighted and the band is reddened in it. There is the shape of a wheel on the ground and the wheel is put down on it. When the band is red it is taken out of the fire and hammered on the wheel with a sledge. When it is banded it is rolled into the stream to cool.
    The smith has the power to banish rats. When the smith has the horse shoe reddened he fits it on the horse's hoof and the smoke of the burning hoof is supposed to banish rats.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pat F. Keeffe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glenreagh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Dan Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Glenreagh, Co. Cork