School: Naomh Feichín, Cros (roll number 7075)
- Location:
- Cross, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Mac Niocail
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- Marriage occurs during Shrove. May is the unlucky month of the year, and Thursday, Friday, Saturday, are the unlucky days. There is a wedding feast held on the marriage day. Straw boys visit the houses, and they dress raggedly. They sing and dance and look for refreshments and money if they get any.
- The way they used get a wife long ago was they used steal her unknown to her people. There was a certain man in Connemara and he had two brothers and he went to steal a woman on night. The woman and her mother were sleeping together that night and they had such a fight that they killed the woman and hurted the mother. They were hanged in Ballinrobe for it. There used to be straw boys going round to every(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Cummins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortacurra, Co. Mayo