School: Cnoc Breac

Location:
New Inn, Co. Galway
Teacher:
M. Ó Maoldúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0277

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    Sometimes the straw-boys would be inside in the house and some of the neighbours would be outside at the same trick as straw-boys.
    When the people are getting married now their is a bonfire lit for them when they are coming home. There is are candles lit and left on each window of the house. Every window is lit up. All the people are laughing and shouting when the bridegroom and bride enter the house. Marriages are celebrated different now to the way they way celebrates long ago.
    In lent no marriages take place because the people say they would be unlucky. You could have a
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Donohoe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    New Inn, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thomas Melody
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Corrabaun, Co. Galway