School: Glenmaquin (roll number 9748)

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1. Local Forges (continued)

   

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   being strong.
   People do not send them gifts but they pay him well for his work.
   There are no local beliefs or stories connected with the forge.
   Willie Wilson's father was a smith and I think his grandfather was a smith also.

   

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2. Local Forges

   

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   There are two or three forges in the parish of Raphoe. The one I know best is McConlogue's. They live a quarter of a mile above our school. The McConlogue's ancestors were smiths. It has a wooden roof on it. The door opens in two parts. There is one fireplace in it. John McConlogue uses a hammer, a knife, rasp, vice and anvil and forge tongs and chisel and he burns black smiths coal. The smith can make some parts of a plough. He can make a grubber. He can put a shoeing on the cart wheel in the open air. This smith has no power

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   Flo Hetherington

   Gender

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