School: Baile an Chaisil B.
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0139, Page 576
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- (continued from previous page)on is return home to the bride's father's house. Every man who depended on his (return) horse for speed took every short cut to the bride's house to win the bottle. When the whole party returned the feast began. It lasted until the next morning.
The young men of the neighbourhood who were not at the feast disguised themselves and attended the marriage as "Straw Boys".
In some cases the local poet composed some verses about the marriage. There is a verse which referred to a certain marriage.
Her simple marriage dress had been all ready for the morn, and blossoms wild been culled at eve that dress
adorn
The cot been set in readiness for the simple marriage feast. A fiddler from the West would come and a piper from the East
And nothing more was left undone but happily watch and wait
And ask if e'et more bliss than this,
Had e'er been maiden's fate
- Collector
- Thomas Pryal
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Jordan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballyknock, Co. Mayo
