School: Sráid na Cathrach (C.) (roll number 8851)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Bhriain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 471
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- There are four smiths in Miltown now Reidy, Heany, Mc Guire and Maloney. They shoe horses and asses. The things they use in a forge is an anvil a raspe and a clench knife. They do not make shovels or ploughs.
Long ago the smiths made spears for fighting. A smith named Redmond Burke who lived in the Ennistymon Road made spears. Two men from Miltown went to England. When they go there the fight was over. They were captured by an English Officer. He told them he would put them to death if one of them could not knock a English man off a horse. One of the men had the spear in his hand and he caught a hold of the reins and knocked the man off the the horse. They got pardon and their passage(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Talty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glendine South, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Tomie Frawley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 70
- Address
- Knockloskeraun, Co. Clare
