School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- Shrovetide being the season that most marriages took place the first Sunday in Lent was called "Chalk Sunday," when strokes of Chalk were put on people's backs. This was done for a lark when the people, appeared at the church, who were eligible for marriage, and had not got married.
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- Collector
- Dan Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballinglen, Co. Mayo