School: Ballydurrow
- Location:
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hadarnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0998, Page 266
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- (continued from previous page)They dance with the company for a time and depart peaceably invoking blessings on the wedded couple. They are dressed with straw and sometimes fantastic clothing. If not treated well by the bridegroom they retaliate by doing great damage, such as pulling up trees, knocking cocks of hay and oats, tumbling gates and piers and many other acts. These things occur but seldom, for in almost all cases their visit is welcomed and is called a "beg". At the church when the ceremony of marriage is over, rice is thrown at the wedded couple for luck; an old shoe is tied on the back of the bridegroom's car and he always wears on that day some borrowed article such as a tie. On the day of the wedding, but late in the evening, the bride's drawing home arrives and consists of bedding and other articles of dress and things for use in her new home.
- Collector
- John Hetherton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
