School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Luke Caslin
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- (continued from previous page)commenced. During the night the house was visited by wren-boys and they danced with the people of the house. During the night they got refreshments.
In the morning the man took home his wife, and this was called the dragging home. This is the way Mr. Thomas Owens told me about marriage customs.Annie Mc Cormack.
Ruskey,
Co. Roscommon.
14 Jan. '38- Collector
- Annie Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Owens
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Roosky New, Co. Roscommon