School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)smith's name. There are two in Creeslough, the smith's names are Barney McGinley, and Dan Baird. There is one fire in every forge. The bellows the smith uses are very large. The smith's tools are, a hammer, a small sledge, a rasp, nippers, a chisel. The smith shoes horses and donkeys. He makes ploughs and grubbers, picks, axes, gates, harrow-pins, the smith also repairs and mends different things.
- There are five forges in the parish now. There are two forges in Dunfanaghy and they belong(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Faugher, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Ellen Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Faugher, Co. Dhún na nGall
