School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)it is called a land-match. Shrove Tuesday has another name. It is called Shrove Tuesday.
Whenever the bride and groom are coming home after their days outing, the man of the house or his nearest friend and other people of the neighbourhood would meet the bride and groom with a bottle of whiskey. They would treat the wedding people. After they would have them treated it was usually half-full. There was a middling big stone put on the middle of the road. The groom would take the bottle half full of whiskey He would throw it and would break it off the stone. Sometimes the pieces of the bottle are left on the road. Sometimes people(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frank Moyna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Frank Moyna
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
