School: Ceathair Dhúin Iascaigh, Clochar na Trócaire
- Location:
- An Chathair, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Tréisín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0569, Page 324
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- (continued from previous page)anvil which is a large shaped hulk of steel, with one end drawn out to shape things on it with his hammer. The smith's tools are composed of a hammer, sledges, tongs of different kinds, pincers, a knife for pairing horses hoofs, a vice for holding things which need filing up etc. The smith, as a rule, is a man who does several kinds of work; he shoes horses, and donkeys also he makes gates, ploughs, harrows, in fact anything of iron and steel.
Mr. Burke's family, father and brothers were all carpenters, and the present is the first of the family to become a smith, and his decision to become a smith was a wise one, for the reason that the two trades combined can turn out a lot of work between them, which an outsider would have to be paid to do, for instance, making farmers carts, wheels, etc. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chathair, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mr Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Chathair, Co. Thiobraid Árann
