School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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- Marriages are very usual happenings in my district marriages mostly occur in Spring.
When the bride and bridegroom are getting married, money is usually given as a dowry by her father. There are many lucky days for marriage, but the luckiest days of all is Wednesday and the unluckiest day of all is Friday.
It is said that people who marry on Saturday will be always running. When the Bridegroom weds the feast is generally held in the Brides house, them it is held in the Bridegrooms house., this is called "the dragging home". The feast is held during the night ass the friends are invited and a dance is held, drink is given to the men and wine to the women.
Sometimes "Straw boys" go round dressed in Straw. It was a great custom long ago but now it is dying away. They sometimes go for drink or amusement but the generally go for money which the Bridegroom gives them. It was an old custom too for the people attending the wedding to race against each other and who ever was first home, got a bottle of whiskey. When the wife was going home. she would sit up behind her husband on horseback as "Suggan" which it was generally called.
- Collector
- Lucy Cawley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilnamanagh, Co. Sligo
