School: Lankill (roll number 16904)

Location:
Lankill, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 09_024

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  1. About fifty years ago when the people would be getting married they used to go on horseback and about twenty years ago they used to have about twenty cars.
    They would spend the whole evening drinking in a public house till it would be getting dark.
    Whey they would be coming home they would drive as fast as they could. They would be so drunk that some of them would drive into a drain. Some people used to have fires lit along the road. The horses used frighten at the fires and jump into a drain and the people would be thrown off the car. There used to be ropes just across the road and the people would not see them and they would
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Lavelle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cordarragh North, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Lavelle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cordarragh North, Co. Mayo