School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0974, Page 084
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- (continued from previous page)an ordinary rectangular shape. The bellows are not made locally. The blacksmith shoes horses and donkeys and wheels. He does not make farm implements but he repairs them. The only work done in the open air is the shoeing of wheels. This is done on the street in front of the forge. Forge water is supposed to cure warts and to put a child in and out under the bellows three times is a cure for the chin cough. The local smiths were always looked upon as very strong. The local forge was the centre of story telling and in the evening when all work would be done the people would gather into the forge and comment on all the happenings of the day. This is a verse about the local forge.
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- Collector
- Josephine Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Galligan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
