School: Carrigaline, Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Mhic Conchoille
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0357, Page 109
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carrigaline, Ráth Mhór
- XML Page 109
- XML “Saint Patrick's Day”
- XML “Shrove”
- XML “Weddings”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- It was a great custom in this district to take the Patrick's Pot. Probably, it was to honour our conversion from Paganism. The result was that people imbibed too freely on that day.
- Marriages were celebrated in the home of the bride in the early years of the last century. The priest got his offerings from the guests and the priest also partook of the dinner
- Informant
- J.C. Dineen
- Gender
- Male
- Straw-boys did not appear until about forty years ago. Some were invited so as not to cause disturbance. As a rule they behaved very well but on some occasions they caused trouble.
The good fellows danced and got some drinks and the others showed rowdy conduct and had to be forcibly ejected. A drag
the procession of cars in a wedding was called - saddle horses 1st then all went on horse-back, the bride went to Church riding behind one of HER friends, and returned with one of HIS friends. Bonfires greeted them at cross-roads - Bridegroom threw them money.
