School: Roxboro, Luimneach (roll number 15680)
- Location:
- Roxborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Gheallagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0525, Page 041
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- (continued from previous page)When the smith saw who he was he locked the door and put down a horseshoe in the fire to redden. When it was red he faced the devil with it and told him to give him back all his money. The devil did so, but the Blacksmith made him promise that he would never enter a house where there is a horseshoe nailed on the door. So that is the reason why there is always a horseshoe nailed on the door of the forge and in houses where people live.
- Ballynagarde Forge
The blacksmith of my locality is James Fitzgerald of Ballinagarde, Fedamore, County Limerick.
His forge is situated near a stream which runs by Ballynagarde wood.
The implements with which blacksmith works are, hammers, sledges, anvils, bellows, pinchers, tongs, knives, vice. James Fitzgerald’s father and grandfather were blacksmiths(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maurice Clifford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toberyquin, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Clifford
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toberyquin, Co. Limerick
