School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- An tSrúibh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 4
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- Marriage Customs.
Times:Before Lent, Easter, Xmas Times.
Lucky Days: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday.
Unlucky Days : Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Lucky Months :April, June, September.
Unlucky Months: May, November.
Customs: Firing shot when party is going to Church
:Tying old boots to car.
:Throwing old shoe after car.
:Party in evening in bride's house.
:Bonfires outside brides house.
:Straw boys gather. They sing and dance outside.Story.
About fifty years ago my Grandmother remembers a wedding to be in our house . At a station. The priest married a couple after Mass and the groom had no ring so the priest used the ring of his keys and someone got the local blacksmith to make him one.
On the wedding day a party was held in the brides home. plenty to eat, and drink. Long ago the straw boys came to the wedding house and sang and danced and asked for drink. They were dressed with straw tied around their legs for trousers and straw hats. Sometimes they travelled long distances on foot and on horseback. Long ago(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Ceathrú Aodha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mrs P. Mc Cann
- Gender
- Female
