School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)All those forges are near a crossroads but I think none of them are near a stream.
The roof is covered with asphalt and the door is shaped like a horse shoe. There are two fire-places in Pat Kiernan's forge but there is only one fire place in use now. Pat says there was better trade long ago than to-day and that is why he only uses one fire.
The people say that if a person who had sore feet washed his feet in the water in the blacksmith's trough his feet would get better.
The blacksmiths puts the shoeing on wheels outside the forge door. He puts the shoing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Mooney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghanea, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Charlie Mooney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghanea, Co. Cavan
