School: Ceis (roll number 15342)
- Location:
- Kesh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 434
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- Marriages most frequently occur in Shrove. The month of May was supposed to be an unlucky month for marriage, also Tuesdays and Saturdays were considered unlucky days.
There was a great amount of match-making done in Ireland long ago. The wife had to pay a dowry to the husband. This dowry consisted of money, but if people were too poor to give money they would give cattle instead. Nearly all the people were married in a house, and the priest came there to marry them.
On the wedding day there would be a wedding feast in the bride's home. During the feat "Straw-boys" came. They were dressed in straw. When they came to the house they had pitch forks and they put on the pitch forks a note demanding whatever they wanted, generally money. They also asked for drinks. If they got these they went away quietly. If(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Marie Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocklough, Co. Sligo
