School: Davidstown (roll number 9682)
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Marion G. Brennan
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- Fields:- Sea's riasg [?], Brennan's "inch", Martin Doyle's inch, the kiln field, bullawn, the brow field, the rath field, the raheen Bushes, the knock, the old town.
Ford:- Glibbeen stones, Aughsallagh, Aughnacrow, The Round O (a circle of trees).
The Butcher's Lane. The Soldiers' Hole. The Carraig (old graveyard). The bawn (a wide open space near a house).
- Pat Hennessey (22) Davidstown o Michael Hennessey (50) Davidstown o - Nicholas Keating, Ballinavarry died 1918 aged 100.
The marriageable girls assembled, caught hands & stood in a straight line. Young men went forward & picked their choice, or sometimes they were introduced by some old man or woman. This was followed by dancing around a bone fire on the fair green. The old matchmaker then got in touch with parents or guardians & the marriage took place in a week or so after.
