School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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- (continued from previous page)her clothes from her own home before Shrove Tuesday she must not remove them for seven weeks.
Straw boys:-
Boys and men who go around to the houses of those newly married. They wear straw hats or helmets which cover the face and a kind of straw coat. When they come to the house they sing and dance and the leader asks the bride to dance.
- In Martin Readry's farm at Ardarone there is a fort called "The Palace Fort". here the leader of some great band of warriors lived.In Farramanagh there is one called Lisadoone near this is(continues on next page)
