School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 135
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- The bellows is used for blowing the fire up, from a small fire to a big fire. It is made from two pieces of wood in the shape of a heart about 3' in length. These heart-shaped slabs of wood are joined together at the sides by soft leather nailed to the wood at the pointed end of the bellows there is a pipe. Now, a pipe a handle is attached on the other end, which when worked up and down forces the air out through the iron pipe. There is a valve in the side of the bellows which admits more air. No forge can be without a bellows.
- hammer, sledge, chissel anvil, pincers, vice, pliers, bellows, turn screw, bit brace, iron puncher, nails.
- Collector
- Mary Kennarney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Patrick Kennarney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Horses and ass's are shod in the(continues on next page)
