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School: Naomh Feichín, Cros (roll number 7075)

Location:
Cross, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Mac Niocail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0102, Page 391

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  1. Local Marriage Customs

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    Marriages occur mostly from after Christmas until Ash Wednesday. May is supposed to be an unlucky month to get married or on a Monday. The couple are crushed in the door on their wedding day and they break the wedding cake on the brides head. There is great feasting until day break at the bridegrooms house. Straw boys gather to the house all dressed up and then they dance round the floor till they get some drink which is always served at weddings.
    It is another custom for men to steal their intended wives from fairs and markets and leave them in the young man's house and then get married the next week.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Halloran
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cross East, Co. Mayo