School: Árd-chill
- Location:
- Ardkill More, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 186
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- (continued from previous page)within on a hearth raised about three feet from the ground. The smith uses a sledge, pincers, a rasp, an anvil and other tools. The smith shoes horses, jennets, asses, mules. I never heard of cattle being shod in this district. The bellows is like the ordinary kitchen only it is several times larger. He makes ploughs harrows, spades, shovels, and other farm implements. He also makes axels for carts, barrows, and wheels of all descriptions.
- To shoe a wheel means to put a circle of iron on a rim of felloes. In Summer the smith gets most wheels to shoe. The heat of the sun shrinks the wood of the felloes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ben Galligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardkill More, Co. Cavan
