School: Balrath (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Oirghiall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 046
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- There is a forge on the way I go to school. It is standing there for about a hundred years. A man called Moran works in it . He is very useful for making things. He has a lot of tools.
He makes gates and shoes horses. He fixes ploughs harrows potato diggers and mowing machines and all classes of machinery. He lights a fire every day blowing it by a bellows. He is able to mend household vessel made of iron such as pots kettles pot hooks tongs and saves the housekeeper from buying new ones.
- Collector
- Mary Bannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Johnstown, Co. Westmeath
