School: Ballynarry
- Location:
- Ballynarry, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)rider and the pusher were knocked to the ground. they scrambled away and tumbled in under a tomb stone. Harry got his bicycle and started for home, but he could not ride his bicycle till he got a piece of the old woman's habit out of the chain. He was just in time for first mass in Kilmalick.
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- Collector
- Mary T. Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- There are four forges in this parish. The names of the owners are ÷ In Ballyheelan Edward Smyth, in Reilagh Edward Galligan, in Maughere John Smyth brother of the first named, and in Mullaghboy Joe Mc Manus. The blacksmith is a very strong man with great muscles. He makes all sorts of farm implements such as ÷ ploughs, harrows, spades, and shovels. He also shoes wheels in the open air. The door of the forge is an ordinary door. The instruments he uses are ÷ the bellows, the tongs, the vice, the anvil, the sledge, the hammer, the trough, and the fire.