School: Eslin (roll number 10026)
- Location:
- Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 416
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- (continued from previous page)young boys of the countryside go out hunting the "Rann" and beating all the hedges around. They usually gather a lot of money. They carry a box and dance and every one gives them a few coppers, & then that night they have a great feast in some house, and a bit of a dance.
Nowadays there is a great difference in the way they dance and where they dance compared with long ago. Long ago there was no such a thing as a hall dance at all. There were no bands either. There was a dance at a cross roads in the evening or at a [?] alley and be home about night fall. There was also a churn dash and some one would give the churn dash and a cake upon the top of it to the best looking girl or what was called that time "the Belle of the Ball". Some one would be there playing a flute or perhaps a fiddle and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pilib Mac Aonghusa
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Patrick Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Drumhany, Co. Leitrim
