School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 274
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- Marriages were most frequent just before Lent. May is an unlucky in which to get married, and Friday is also unlucky. People need to give the brides cattle when they were getting married, and sometimes money. On the wedding night they had a feast and dance in the Bride's house, and the straw boys used to come in and dance. They were dressed in big straw hats, ad had a fiddle with them, they played and danced.
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- Collector
- Florence Sharpe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Sharpe
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Donagh Beg, Co. Leitrim
