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School: Athboy (C.)

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Baile Átha Buí, Co. na Mí
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Mhácháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 406

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    with iron. The door is half round on the top. There are two bellowes in it one is an ordinary one and the other is a fan bellowes they were made long ago.
    He has an anvil and six different kinds of hammers, cutters for iron, rasps, and knives, buffers and three different kinds of pincers. Two drilling machines, two vices, and screwing plates. There are many different kinds of tongs and a crane and a trough for water for cooling irons.
    They shoe horses and asses.
    They also make ploughs, harrows and spades and picks.
    They shoe wheels and they make gates and pailings and iron doors.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mamie Rispin
    Gender
    Female
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    Baile Átha Buí, Co. na Mí