School: Ladhar an Chrompáin (roll number 14998)
- Location:
- Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)dinner was over, they would dance and sing and amuse themselves until morning. When it would be drawing near night, three or four batches of straw-boys would come. They would get plenty drink and they would sing and dance and amuse themselves for an hour or two and then their captains would order them all out.
Some of the "straw-boys" would be dressed with the straw of the whiskey bottles, more of them would have a ribbon draped around their shoulders and waists and have their coats turned inside out, and their "shilaileighs" in their hands.
Some people gave stock as a dowery instead of money if it were needed where they would be going.
In Master Molyneaux's dwelling house in Lyreacrumpane there used to be Mass celebrated and some of the people of the locality, when getting married, were married there.
In some places, where the passages were bad some of the girls would go on horse-back behind the boys, out to the public road.- Collector
- Eilís Ní Churáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Timothy Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry