School: Cumán an Lín
- Location:
- Commanealine, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seanán Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0541, Page 30
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- (continued from previous page)As far as I have been able to ascertain no marriages have taken place in the houses within living memory.
- Weddings - the feast held at the home of the bridegroom after the marriage are now very rare, the reason given being that “ it would cost too much to make a wedding now “. Weddings were however invariably held in former times, and were important affairs. Food and drink were lavishly distributed at the supper at which potatoes together with a generous quantity of goose flesh and home cured bacon graced the plates of the invited guests.
- Straw-boys. Since weddings have become so rare “ straw-boys are almost unknown but were(continues on next page)
