School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- It is the custom in Ireland that after every wedding there would be a wedding in the house of the bride or bridegroom the night of the marriage.
The young men for miles around would dress in different styles they would wear quear head dresses and vizards some of them dress like (them) women wearing skirts and jumpers and all sorts of womens cloths, these are uninvited guests are called collicks. proper collicks conduct themselves. they never rise disturbance or eat anything in the house but came to amuse themselves and the people of(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kitty Kelsey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bodal, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr Edward Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Clashwilliam, Co. Kilkenny