School: Ballymahon (B.) (roll number 12690)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Eugene Conway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 191
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- (continued from previous page)for the boxen of the cart to fit in. This is outside every forge. The implements he uses are a rasp, a vice, pincers, punches, fueller and a stand for a horse's foot. Those Smiths shoe asses and horses. John Corrigan's brother shod a bull for Mr. Higgins in Kenagh he put on a half shoe on each foot, the man got him shod so that he could draw a cart and do other kinds of work. The smiths do not make farm implements but they make parts for farm implements. The blacksmiths in my district make slanes for cutting turf. The smith does his work in the open air on a very warm day. Forge water is very good for curing warts. The smith is looked on as a very strong man as it is said in the "Village Smithy. The blacksmiths here never made enything connected with war, buthtye supplied the people who made them with the waste iron.
- Collector
- Tom Skelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- John Corrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
