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School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)

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Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269D, Page 05_016

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    invite all their friends, and all the guests used to accompany them to the church, on side-cars drawn by horses. Sometimes there used to be over twenty cars at such a marriage.
    When the wedding party was returning from church, they always used to take a round-about way to the house where the wedding feast was to be held. This feast was nearly always held at the home of the bride.
    Straw-boys used always attend, disguised by wearing masks or with blackened faces.When they would go into the houses they would get drink from the people of the house, and they would then dance. Then they would look for more, and if they did
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mulligan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowntarriff, Co. Roscommon