School: St. James, Barnacogue, Swinford
- Location:
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Lorcáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0116, Page 5
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- (continued from previous page)which the were to get the would like to meet a man first the say a woman is considered unlucky. People remember marriages having taking place in the houses. It is about a hundred years ago. Long ago the night before the marriage the would have a wedding for them. The straw boys would come to the house on that night looking for porter and whiskey. They would come into the house and dance a half-set and bring the newly married woman with them. There would be a couple of people from every house in the locality in it that night. Long ago when a young couple would get married the would fling the tongs after them for luck. The also used to make an oat-meal cake and break it on the girls head for luck.
- Collector
- Mary Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killaturly, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Gallagher
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killaturly, Co. Mayo
