School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)
- Location:
- Blackwater, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)It is not so very effective now he says as no big irons like the plough irons, coulters etc of former days are cooled in it. When it was almost as black as ink it had its full effect.When hard horny hands were washed in it they became soft and white.He remembers to have seen bullocks shod - two half-shoes for each hoof. He remembers to have seen bullocks ploughing at Móg Briens of Upton near Kilmuckridge and at Morton's of Ballinaclash Blackwater. Large straw collars were plaited to take the draught chains.
