School: Crois Bhóthar
- Location:
- Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0139
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- (continued from previous page)there was a superstitious belief that whichever side - the bride's friends or the bridegroom's friends - would win the race, the bride or bridegroom would out live the other. Same rules applied to the middle class but there would be a procession of side cars and saddled horses. I wish here to recall a remarkable incident that happened opposite the Cossroads National School about 90 years ago. It was the wedding of Martin Flaherty, grandfather to the present Flaherty family still living in Kilbannon. There was a procession of 10 or 12 side cars and only two saddled horses. One had a pillion rider and the other had none. The bride's guest threw the challenge to his rival who promptly accepted and threw off the pillion rider regardless of whether she would get hurt or not and won the race. There would be straw boys at every wedding house dressed with straw and false faces and they used give great(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Flaherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcreevanty, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Mannion
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 70
- Address
- Kilcreevanty, Co. Galway
