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School: Dungimmon

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Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0995, Page 048

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    also. They have two sheafs of straw on their heads, and some straw around their bodies. When the people in the house see them, they cheer them, the band-beggars them enter the house. They dance with the people there.
    The people then go to the bride's house for a bottle of whiskey either on foot or on horseback.
    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
    Meg Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan