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School: Lugnaskeehan (roll number 6562)

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Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Eibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 434

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  1. Local Marriage Customs

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    Marriages took place mostly before Lent and after Lent. Friday and Saturday are said to be unlucky days for marriages.
    The marriages took place in the house of the Bride and the Priest went to the house to marry them. About forty or fifty years ago the people began to go to the Chapel to be married. They used to walk to the Chapel in pairs. They had a fiddler with them and they danced at every cross-roads.
    Then when they came back they drank lots of whiskey and ate fowl and then they had dances after. Then the straw-boys came at night they dressed in straw and they wore big, straw hats and had their coats turned inside out. The “Captain” and “Sergeant” would come to the door and ask were they welcome and the man of the house
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Judge
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullinwillin, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Dolan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75
    Address
    Mullaghmore, Co. Leitrim