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School: Lankill (roll number 16904)

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Lankill, Co. Mayo
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Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 05_088

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    forty or so. The straw-boys used to sing, and dance, and play melodions, and play games of every sort, and they used to get tea and plenty to drink and if they did not get that they would do harm at that house. They would leave them after four or five hours. At nine o'clock in the morning the man and woman would go and get married and the same amount of horses would go and come again with the man and woman. Then they would go home. The straw-boys used to be dressed with a big straw hat a big long white dress and then they would
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Keane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr Hugh Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinlough, Co. Mayo