School: Cnoc Breac
- Location:
- New Inn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Maoldúin
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- (continued from previous page)Sometimes the straw-boys would be inside in the house and some of the neighbours would be outside at the same trick as straw-boys.
When the people are getting married now their is a bonfire lit for them when they are coming home. There is are candles lit and left on each window of the house. Every window is lit up. All the people are laughing and shouting when the bridegroom and bride enter the house. Marriages are celebrated different now to the way they way celebrates long ago.
In lent no marriages take place because the people say they would be unlucky. You could have a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Margaret Donohoe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- New Inn, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Melody
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Corrabaun, Co. Galway