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School: Cullen, Tiobraid Árann (roll number 7245)

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Cullen, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Seosamh Mainséal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0581, Page 263

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    result, there was usually a great race to the house.

    The wedding feast consisted of pig’s heads cabbage or turnips, and the wedding continued until daybreak. Everybody wished the happy couple a “gradle” (great deal) of joy and happiness.

    Wedding took place in girl’s house. The wedding dinner consisted of buck head and milk or milk and porridge.
    Buck head How to make it.
    Mash potatoes and grate them. Then squeeze off all the water with a fine cloth. What remains is made into a cake and baked hard.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English