School: Glenalla (roll number 10744)
- Location:
- Glenalla, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Maude McCormack
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1086, Page 31
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- The chief time they marry about here is from Summer to Christmas. Wednesday and Thursday are the two chief they marry on. May is an unlucky month to get married in. Long ago they used to travel to the church to get married when they would come out the congregation used to throw rice on the bride and salt on the bride-groom. Everybody fire’s shots and lids of Carabide boxes that day. They put a hole in the bottom of the box, then put a bit of wet Carabide into the box and when it is [bissing ?] they put a match to the box and the lid goes off with a great shot.When they are coming home from getting married they burn bottles of straw and tar-barrels along the road.Straw boys used to go round long ago to the house of the bride and this was how they were dressed, they had false-faces and long blue pecked hats and red trousers they also had three(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenalla, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Robert Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ray, Co. Donegal
