School: Baile an Tobair
- Location:
- Ballintober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhomhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)Continuedreceived; and they feast and make merry during that night.
- It is a custom during Shrove season to shake a grain of salt on the heads of the maids and bacholers who are not married during Shrove season on Shrove Tuesday night.
There were many marriages held during Shrove and the priest used to go round to the houses long ago to perform the marriage ceremony.
One Shrove Tuesday the priest came to a house, and found a great crowd of couples waiting to be married. The priest was very busy that evening. Just as the last ceremony was to be performed, the cock shuck himself on the roost and was just going to crow when the priest told someone to go out and catch the cock by the(continues on next page)
