School: Clochar
- Location:
- An Clochar, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhimsithigh
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- (continued from previous page)comes out he askes them in for tea and treats them well and then the straw-boys help with the dancing and merrymaking.
When the bride and groom arrive home a bon fire is blazing up to welcome them. If there is any straw about the house they put a match to it and it makes a bon-fire. If there is no straw about the people get a barrel of tar and light it. In the town a barrel of tar is lighted on the street in front of the house as soon as the bride and bridegroom arrive home.
- Marriages mostly take place on the days before Lent. On Shrove Tuesday most marriages take place. May is counted an unlucky month for marriages. Wednesday is counted a lucky day for a wedding. shrove Tuesday is called Pancake Tuesday. People make Pancakes on that day. Match making is carried on in our district. When a boy wants a wife some man makes a match. He knows a girl that would suit him, and he takes him to the girl's house. The man tells the father of the girl that this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- George Parker
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Láithreach, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Informant
- Eddie Mc Donnal
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile na Lorgan, Co. Mhuineacháin
