School: Ballyhogue
- Location:
- Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs. Margaret Cahill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 212
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- (continued from previous page)saws, anvil, the dog, wrenches, vices, and the augers.
- The various work done in a forge is making harrows and ploughs and cars and gates and binding wheels and horse shoes and also the smith makes springs for cars.The principal one is shoeing the horse and donkeys. First the smith gets a piece of iron and puts it in the fire until it is hot enough to be turned into different shapes.The smith gets a big pincers to take out the iron then he puts it on the anvil and turns the iron into a shoe.Then he puts it into the fire until it is red enough to put the holes in it.When a horse is brought to be shod the old shoes must be take off with a pincers and then the hoofs must be pared and the nails must be a taken out of the hoofs. There is a special knife for paring the horses hoofs the smith holds the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Long
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford
