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School: Ballykelly

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Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
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Pádraig Mac Uadain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 262

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    clothes and covered their faces with masks and went to the wedding too. These were called "fools." Sometimes they were a quiet crowd and at other times they did a lot of harm to outside property. They took cars and ran them into bogs and drains. The people could not get them for days after. At times they took all the cans and buckets and pots they could find and dropped tem into the pump. The next day the people of the house could not get anything bigger than a cup to get water for their breakfast
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mick Dempsey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bowling Green, Co. Wexford