School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 14_024
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- Marriages begin every year on the 6th of January and end on Shrove Tuesday. People also marry in Summer.
To marry during Lent or to marry on a Friday is not right. On the morning of the wedding confitir and rice are thrown after the girl and boy as a sign of luck.
"Straw-boys" or sappers visit the houses on the wedding day. They have masks on their faces so that they would not be known.
Long ago people that were attending the wedding used race each other home on horses, but that was about forty years ago.
- Collector
- Eilís Nic Mhuiris
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Patrick Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inis Mór, Co. Chiarraí
