School: Caimthír (Camphire), Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15129)
- Location:
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Nóra Bean Uí Chradóig
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- (continued from previous page)marriage was given in the bride's house. The Parish Priest came and married them and the husband brought his wife home on horse-back. A great feast was help on the wedding-day.
Straw-boys used to go to the houses. They were dressed strangely and masked so that no-body would know them. They went in and sand and danced. They had great racing going home on horse-back. The horses were fed well before the wedding. People inside the ditches used to fire buckets and missiles at them. - Bird-Lore.The wild birds commonly found in Camphire are the robin, crow, blackbird, thrush, sparrow, swallow, cuckoo, starling, skylark, pigeon and wood-cock.
The robin remains with us all the year around, and in summer builds her nest in a hole in the(continues on next page)- Informant
- Tomás Ó Núnáin
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Camphire, Co. Waterford