School: Mounttrenchard, Leamhchoill (roll number 2540)
- Location:
- Mounttrenchard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Nuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0481, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)he makes a good weld. Then he puts it into the fire, and covers it with the red sods, to expand the iron, so that it will fit down about the timber. When the band is on the wheel, he cools it gently, and we can see the band squeezing into the timber.On wet days the forge is a very very busy place. People have very little to do at home that day, and they bring their horses to be shod, and get other little jobs done. People like to go to the forge, as it is a great place for getting news, for telling funny stories, and perhaps telling white lies. The smith is generally respected in the neighbourhood, and people look upon him as the poet did when he wrote.
"His brow is wet with honest sweat"
"for he owes not any man".
James Scanlon,
Kilteery,
Loughill.
- Collector
- James Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilteery, Co. Limerick
