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School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0119, Page 233

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    instead of horses the people went in jaunting cars and those who attended the marriage used to go about to the next parishes playing on every sort of instruments, fiddles, (fluets) flutes, and other things and then they used to go to the bride's house for the feast.
    Another custom was that "strawboys" used to go to the wedding-feasts wearing false-faces and having straw tied around them, and they (wound) would demand drink and a dance with the bride or else they would do some destruction outside
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Charles Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo