School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 549
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- (continued from previous page)Fridays and Saturdays were days which were counted unlucky for marriage.
When people got married the bridegroom always got stock from his father, and the bride got money.
It was a custom long ago that whenever there was a marriage in a house men called "straw boys" went there to dance and sing and play music.
It was always on horseback that people rode then, and when returning home after the ceremony the guests would race each other and who ever won would get a bottle of whiskey from the bride.
- Collector
- Thaddeus Maxwell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Whitehall, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Whitehall, Co. Westmeath
