School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)
- Location:
- Mountcollins, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 342
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- (continued from previous page)not go to the well for water. You'd meet the fairies it is said.Clogs are very seldom seen now but they were common some years ago.
- There are two forges in the parish. Bill Phil's (O'Connell) and Jack McCarthy, and Martin the Smith (RIO) Brosnan hare or had forges.Ruins of an old forge are oven in Gorban. They got an anvil buried there. Bill Phil's forge is situated at Ned Don's (O'Connell) Cross.Jack McCarthy's forge is on the side of the road near a stream on the border of Caherlevoy and Mt CollinsRafters are made from branches of trees and sods and thatch as covering.A sliding door of no special shape.There is a pipe going out through the wall to the fire. The point of the bellows is going into this pipe. There is a stick along side the bellows. There is a chain tied to the bottom of the bellows and the end of the(continues on next page)
