School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí

Location:
Listowel, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 317

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    K. Sheehy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Listowel, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mr Sheehy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Listowel, Co. Kerry
  2. When a couple would be getting married, when they would be coming out of the chapel some people would throw oats upon them when they would be too poor to buy confetti and on the road home some men used hold a rope across the road and hold up the car until they would get some few shillings. Then they used to walk to the village to
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