School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: An tSiúr Concepta
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- When the wedding ceremony is over a crowd used to race each other on horseback to the house of the bride and whoever arrived there first got a bottle of whiskey.
- Collector
- Moya Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr J. Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hartstown, Co. Meath
- On wedding nights in Rathowen Co. Westmeath it is customary for "straw boys" to go to the house where the wedding is being celebrated, and it is considered unlucky if they are refused some of the wedding cake.
