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School: Louth (C.) (roll number 3252)

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Louth, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Chasaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 319

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    About sixty years ago Louth was a far bigger village than it is now. There were four bakeries in it, a pin factory and a very big forge also. There is a horse shoe shaped out in the wall where the forge door was.
    There were three men named McKenna working in it.
    Ploughs and other farming implements were made in it. They had a big round hole in the Flagger Bog for shoeing cart wheels and there was a big iron ring in the hole to shape the rims of the wheels and the hole can still be seen outside a garden in the school playground. They had a well at the back of the forge, and they used to get water in it to cool the irons.
    There is a forge in the village and a man named Thomas McArdle owns it. The smithy trade was always in the Mc
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cecilia Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Louth, Co. Louth