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School: Gowran (C.)

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Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
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Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 022

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  1. Local Marriage Customs

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    It is the custom in Ireland that after every wedding there would be a wedding in the house of the bride or bridegroom the night of the marriage.
    The young men for miles around would dress in different styles they would wear quear head dresses and vizards some of them dress like (them) women wearing skirts and jumpers and all sorts of womens cloths, these are uninvited guests are called collicks. proper collicks conduct themselves. they never rise disturbance or eat anything in the house but came to amuse themselves and the people of
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Kelsey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bodal, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr Edward Brennan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    87
    Address
    Clashwilliam, Co. Kilkenny