School: Béal Átha hUbhla (C.) (roll number 3998)
- Location:
- Baile Átha hÚlla, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chaoimh
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- (continued from previous page)they go for breakfast to the young mans house.
They have a wedding there all day and all night.
They have singing, dancing, music, and great feasting.
Then the newly married couple go on their honeymoon and all the friends go home.
A month after this the newly married couple come to the girl's parents' house where a party is held in their honour.
Long ago if a girl or a boy over thirty years of age did not get married in Shrove they were taken to "Skelig".
They were watched by a number of people who if they caught them, put ropes around them, and took them down to the river and gave them three dips in it.
It did not matter who they were.
Another custom they had was - all the girls and boys were watched going to mass on "Chalk Sunday" that was the Sunday after Shrove Tuesday who were over thirty years of age.
There was a cross put on their backs with coloured chalk.
We all have pan - cakes for our supper on Shrove Tuesday night.
The people were bound to fast long ago during Lent.
They could not eat any eggs or meat.
They put all the eggs they had in the pan - cakes then to be(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Lombard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Aichidh, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- David Lombard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Cill Aichidh, Co. Chorcaí
