School: Baile na Martra (C.) (roll number 13651)
- Location:
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mary J. Fitzsimmons
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0396, Page 192
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- There are five forges in the Parish of Mogeely. Three of them are worked by a family called Murnane. They are two brothers and a first cousin. In each forge there is an anvil a vice and two bellows. These smiths generally spend the day shoeing horses and repairing ploughs and other farm implements. When they are banding wheels they do it in the open air. Outside the forge door there are two stone troughs for holding water to cool hot irons. There are also two round stone flags for banding wheels.
Forge water is supposed to be very good for to wash your hands. It keeps them from splitting.
- The water in which people wash there feet is not supposed to be kept in the house over night.
