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School: Fraine, Athboy (roll number 14766)

Location:
Fraine, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Chonalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 004

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    used to drive around the country with their neighbours in old Irish jaunting cars and return home in the evening and have a big dance until morning. It was usual to throw an old brogue after the married couple for luck.
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  2. Local Marriage Customs

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    It is usual to make pan-cakes for the tea on shrove Tuesday and when they are being made, a cross made of straw is put into one, a ring into another, and a piece of linen into a third, each person gets a whole pancake and whoever gets the cross will be a nun, and whoever gets the ring are supposed to be married before the year is out, and whoever gets the piece of linen will be an old maid. A procession is held and the bride's relations walk in it, it starts from the bride's house to the chapel, and
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Áine Ní Dhaimhín
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Devine
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Baskinagh Upper, Co. Meath