School: Baile an Tobair

Location:
Ballintober, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhomhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0246, Page 052

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    throat. One of them did and then the ceremony was performed, and after that the cock crew lustily.
    The season the priest did not want the cock to crow was that no marriage could be performed lawfully after twelve o'clock on Shrove Tuesday night.
    At that time the people had no clocks and they only knew the time by the cock's crowing.
    "Puss" Sunday falls on the Sunday after Ash Wednesday. On that day all bacholers and maids are in bad humour and are supposed to wear a "puss" on account of not getting married.
    Shrove Tuesday night is sometimes called Pancake night, as on that night the women of the house makes pancakes for tea and divides them amongst the household.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Shrovetide (~188)
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