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School: Lisball

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Lisball, Co. Cavan
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S. O' Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 190

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    Blacksmith
    The blacksmith shoes horses and asses, and makes things out of iron such as ploughs, harrows, cultivators, iron gates and other things. he mends ploughs, rollers, mowing machines and diggers and other things. He has a lot of implements such as the anvil, the hammer, the sledge, the pinchers, the nippers, the bellows, the chisel, the tongs and other things.
    The place where the blacksmith works is called a smithy or a blacksmiths. There is a horse shoe engraved on the door with a pen
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. smithing (~2,389)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Anne Farrelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Nolagh, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr P. Farrelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Nolagh, Co. Cavan