School: Butlerstown (C.), Portláirge (roll number 14679)
- Location:
- Butlerstown South, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0650, Page 341
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- (continued from previous page)that she would suit a nice boy in Waterford. Her people would come then to see the stock and farm, and if it suited the match was made. If he had twenty cows his people might want five hundred pounds. My grandfather was at a wedding once. First they went to the church in a hose and cart with straw quilt under them. The Buacailli were boys who went to the house dressed up in rags and tatters. While the feasting was going on in the house, those boys used to go out to the barn with a fiddler and get food and drink go leor. Then the dancing would start inside and while they were dancing those boys got ready to dance when their turn came. Then they had great fun until morning. This would last for a week. After the wedding they ran races on horses with the pillion and the women had a hold of the men.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Chléirigh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Power
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Butlerstown South, Co. Waterford
