School: An Gleann Garbh (roll number 2379)
- Location:
- Glengarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caoimhín Ó Séaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0279, Page 170
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“It is a custom at every wedding down to our own days for straw boys to come to the weddings.”
(continued from previous page)to come into the house, and for every straw boy to dance a set with his bride, they upset everything in the house Sometimes the guards are called.
- Once upon a time in the time of the Penal Laws a priest was coming from the County Kerry to the County Cork. In those days there was £20:0:0 reward for a priest who was brought dead or alive.(continues on next page)
