School: Dún Átha, Carraig an Chabhaltaigh

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1. Marriage Customs (continued)

   

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   not enter the kitchen at all) the grass of a cow, or milk, and potatoes and a few shillings a week. The were often very badly treated until the Old Age Pension Act came into force which was their Act of Emancipation. An old couple with a Pound a week were well worth placating and were treated with consideration and respect.

   Edward Naughton, Doonaha N.S. Kilkee, Co. Clare.
   17 March:- Customary for local young men to break the clay pipe with ablow of a stick in the smoker's month on that day. Very often people were hurt.

   

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2. Nósanna na Nollag

   

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   1) STIALLÓGA

   Ar Lá Coille in íarthar an cheanntair seo bíodh de nós ag buachailli óga 40 bliain o shoin dul abhaile le málaí ag bailiú aráin. Na " STIALLÓGA " a tugadh ortha. Seo an rann a bhíodh aca.

   
   " I wish you a happy Xmas and a Happy New Year,

   A bottle of whiskey and a bottle of beer,

   Get up my land-lady and give me my Stíall "

   
   Thughadh na daoine arán geal no báirghín breac agus uisge beatha dhóibh.

   ( Séamus O nEochaidhe on-a athair )

   2) LUAITHREACH

   Bíodh sé de nós ag daoine ar Oidhche Nodlag fadó, piosa bata giumhaise do thabhairt isteach agus do lasadh. Choiméádaidís an luaithreach aistí go dtí cur na mbarraí san Earrach nuair a scaiptí ar an dtalamh é chun rath agus sonas do chur ortha.

   ( Donncadh Ó Coileáin ó Mhártan Treaghain

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