School: Fraine, Athboy (roll number 14766)

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   used to drive around the country with their neighbours in old Irish jaunting cars and return home in the evening and have a big dance until morning. It was usual to throw an old brogue after the married couple for luck.

   

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2. Local Marriage Customs

   

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   It is usual to make pan-cakes for the tea on shrove Tuesday and when they are being made, a cross made of straw is put into one, a ring into another, and a piece of linen into a third, each person gets a whole pancake and whoever gets the cross will be a nun, and whoever gets the ring are supposed to be married before the year is out, and whoever gets the piece of linen will be an old maid. A procession is held and the bride's relations walk in it, it starts from the bride's house to the chapel, and

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. marriage (~4,283)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Áine Ní Dhaimhín

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Michael Devine

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Baskinagh Upper, Co. Meath