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School: Derinturn (B.), Carbury (roll number 12080)

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Derrinturn, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
D. Ó Hódhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0771, Page 114

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    Marriage Custom
    An old custom still persists in this district when a widow or widower remarries. The young men of the district provide themselves with pieces of metal tubing, or failing this, they knock the bottoms off large bottles, and when night falls the blowing of these improvised trumpets can be heard resounding through the district from all directions. This goes on for several nights before the wedding. They call it "sounding them".
    I have heard this "sounding" on many occasions - the last only a couple of years ago.
    DPHoran Jan 1939
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    D.P. Horan
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir