School: Dún Flainn (roll number 9669)
- Location:
- Doonflin Upper, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)heads and down on their body. Now they put on different clothes and a cloth on face so that they will not be known. When they come to the house they hand in a note asking leave of the groom to enter. Having got it four of them go in at a time and they hoist the bride up three times cheering while doing so. They dance their fill. Then four more go in and dance. They continue this until twelve o'clock.
The custom of this district was the more you were thought about the more strawboys attended your wedding. People(continues on next page)- Collector
- Thomas Eugene Beglane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skreen, Co. Sligo