School: Dearg Dún (roll number 10894)
- Location:
- Dergvone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)It is also customary to greet the newly - married pair with cheers on their coming to the bride's new home. Neighbouring boys and girls, men and women stand waiting along the road, and when the wedding - cars are passing by these excited groups cheer and hurrah as a mark of respect or of welcome to the bride and groom. If those cheers are not to be heard at such events it is regarded as a sign that the young man is not popular in his district, and his neighbours remark, "There was not even one to "cheer" him when he was bringing her home?
There is always an abundance of drink in the wedding houses, porter, whiskey and wine, and while the young boys become merry as a result of the liquor, the old men think it is not a "right wedding" if they do(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fred Forbes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coollegreane, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Robert John Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Coollegreane, Co. Leitrim
