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School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)

Location:
Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 10_015

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    they come home from the marriage they have the wedding in the house during the night the straw boys which used to come were boys dressed in false-clothes and straw twisted round their feet so they would not be known.
    If the man that is getting married if he borrow some-thing belonging to a girl in the village he will be lucky.
    If they meet a cow with horns on the road when they are going to the chapel it is sign that they wont be lucky.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Kitterick
    Gender
    Female