School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- They bind cart-wheels in the open outside the forge.
There is a cure in forge-water for sore-feet & corns.
- Collector
- John Forde
- Gender
- Male
- On almost every forge-door, a horse-shoe is nailed or painted.
The implements the smith uses are the sledge, the anvil & the drilling machine. He makes shovels, spades, horse-shoes, picks & axes. - Smiths had power to cure rickets, by leaving the child on the anvil & laying the sledge on top of him.
