School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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- (continued from previous page)last car. The people in the sidecars also had a race to the church, and many the time some of the cars were turned and the people thrown out around the road, when they were crossing each other out.
Very funny things happened at weddings sometimes. Last Shrove Tuesday, twelve months. Laurence Keating of Stagmount was in the Drag, at Mary Murphy's marriage. He was so taken up trying to pass out his neighbour, that he never noticed his wife fell out, when he was going over a heap of stones, and didn't miss her until he reached the church.
- On the first day of Shrove, some girls go to a lime-kiln and drop down a ball of thread, holding the end of it in their hand. Then they start to wind up the thread. After a while the thread is supposed to be held by her future husband. She asks who holds the thread and he will give his name.
They brush round the stack of oats 3 times, and their future husband is supposed to appear to them.(continues on next page)
