School: Cill Ruis Íochtair (roll number 4106)
- Location:
- Kilrusheighter, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Toirdhealbhach Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 258
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- (continued from previous page)"claheras" or straw - boys gather and dance for a few hours.Some of the straw - boys are dressed with rings of straw around their necks and their waist.They also make a hat of straw and pull it down on their eyes. Some "claheras" dress themselves up in old clothes and colour their faces with soot or ink.
Some boys dress like women and some girls dress like men. Nearly everybody likes the "claheras" to come to the house. They take no drink or anything else in this part of the country. They chair the newly married couple. They dance a few dances, give a bit of acting, and then go go home.Nearly everyone has motor cars now but long ago there were saddler horses and side - cars. The saddle - horses used ride to the church and then there was a big race home and there was a bottle of whiskey for the one that would be at home first. Some people heard of married men long ago who used to bring their wives home from church on their wedding day sitting behind them on the horse.
- Collector
- Alice Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corkagh More, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Corkagh More, Co. Sligo
