School: Iubhrach (roll number 8074)
- Location:
- Uragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Cristíne Ní Shíoda
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- (continued from previous page)country places the bride and bride-groom return to the bride's home in the evening and a dance is held. About eleven o'clock the straw boys arrive. These boys are dressed with straw hats pulled down over their faces and there clothes changed so that nobody would know them.
The captain knocks at the door with his stick and asks "Any admittance for straw boys." The man of the house invites them in. When the come in they and sing and tell where they come from.- Collector
- P. Mc Gloin
- Address
- Laghta, Co. Leitrim