School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- (continued from previous page)get a motor-car and cover it with different kinds of flowers and ribbons. Their friends get more motor-cars and they go to the church. When they are married the bridegroom leads the bride into the first motor-car and they go round the country for a spin. The straw-boys visit the houses to have fun and pleasure. They are dressed with long skirts and tall hats. Their faces are black so that they would not be known.
- March is thought unlucky for marriages. Friday and Wednesday are unlucky days.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margurite Barrins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Emlymoran, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr John Naughton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Breaghwy, Co. Mayo