School: Baile Uaitéir (Walterstown) (roll number 12281)
- Location:
- Baile Ualtair, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 151
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- Were supposed to be like "wren boys" going around gathering money they were so called because they wore straw around their legs.
- Collector
- Kitty Ryall
- Hauling home is still observed. When the couple are married, the husband stays with the wife in her own home for a week or two. He goes to his own farm to do his work. Then they appoint a night for hauling home. They invited a few friends and they also invited the Bride's Maid and the Best Man. On that night they pulled the Bride to her future home.
