School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 626
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- (II)There is a forge in this parish belonging to Joseph Bannon. This man's father was also a smith. He did not work in this forge. This forge is in the townsland of Lissanode and parish of Drumraney. It is built beside a crossroads and there is a well convenient to it. The walls are built with cement and the roof is covered with felting tarred and gravelled. The tools he uses in the forge are hammer, sledge, rasp, pincers, punch and knife. There is a bench at one side of the forge and a vice attached to it. There is a cement tank in the forge to hold water to cool red iron. It is said that the water in a forge is able to cure warts and chillblains. There are two half doors leading into the forge and a long bolt to keep them closed together. The work the smith does in the open air is shoeing wheels. Sometimes he mends ploughs and gates outside.
- Collector
- Patrick Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toorbeg, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Toorbeg, Co. Westmeath
