School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)

Location:
Slane, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 325

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 325

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    other at Gormanlough. Tallon have their forge situated in Chapel St Slane down a kind of lane known as an archway. The Castle Forge in Slane Castle Yard. They mend the farm implements and shoe their own horses. Farrells make gates, harrows, thongs, shoes for asses and horses, mend ploughs and other farm implements. Tallons make much the same. All those forges are mostly made of zinc. Farrells have a bellows running underground from the forge to the yard and in Summer they can build a fire outside.
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