School: Charleville, Tullamore
- Location:
- Charleville Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Bhealóg
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- Marriage customs
Long ago people had very peculiar ideas about marriage customs.
Before the pair were married people get together and gathered bottles then broke the bottoms out of them
Then they all went to arrange a place, preferably a hill near the house and they all blew together.
I heard it once when a pair were getting married, it sounded something like a horn down the chimney
This was only done when the people of the neigbour hood disliked one or both of the persons who were getting married.
- Collector
- Bessie Sagnall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonminch, Co. Offaly
- Long ago people used to dress up a man in straw; and they used to light a fire in a field and tie ropes around it and make the people stand around it and make the man that was dressed in straw walk around(continues on next page)
