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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 392

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  1. Local Marriage Customs

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    Marriage occurs during Shrove. May is the unlucky month of the year, and Thursday, Friday, Saturday, are the unlucky days. There is a wedding feast held on the marriage day. Straw boys visit the houses, and they dress raggedly. They sing and dance and look for refreshments and money if they get any.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Walter Morrin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Billypark, Co. Mayo

  2. Local Marriage Customs

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    The way they used get a wife long ago was they used steal her unknown to her people. There was a certain man in Connemara and he had two brothers and he went to steal a woman on night. The woman and her mother were sleeping together that night and they had such a fight that they killed the woman and hurted the mother. They were hanged in Ballinrobe for it. There used to be straw boys going round to every
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