School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)
- Location:
- An Chorr Mhín, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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- (continued from previous page)all work hard in the open air such as shoeing asses, and horses, making ploughs, and harrows. They have a lot of instruments with which they work with. They have sledges, hammers, pincers, chisles, and punches. They also have a great big anvil, and it is two hundred and twenty four pounds weight.
There is one fire place in every forge, and one bellows. The bellows are made of leather and wood. There is a long pipe from the bellows to the bottom of the fire. When you want to blow up the fire you pull a chain up and down. They burn wet slack or coal on the fire. The black smith goes to the(continues on next page)
