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School: Baile an Bhile (C.) (roll number 15488)

Location:
Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bríd Nic Giollachlaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 300

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    have a good dinner of potatoes and cabbage.
    At night the "straw boys" used to come and ask for drink and if they did not get it some damage was done outside.
    The people used to leave a barrel of stout outside for the straw boys to satisfy themselves as it was cheap then.
    The people used to have an oaten cake and they used to break it on the bride's head.
    This they thought would
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    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
    Mona Hunt
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Hunt
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Keebagh, Co. Mayo