School: Drumlish (B.) (roll number 10022)
- Location:
- Drumlish, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Ml. McGovern
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0757, Page 293
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drumlish (B.)
- XML Page 293
- XML “Local Marriage Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)a private drink. In some places they are Called band beggars and always demand drink or money which they have to get from the bride and groom. The dancing continues till morning. Then about a week or two came the dragging home as it was called groomsman went for the bride and there were friend invited to the grooms house to meet the bride and they feasted and danced till morning. Some times the weddin party walked to the church in twos the Groom and Bridesmaid first next the Groomsman and brides maid and after that the party in twos. They were headed by a fiddler or other musician. At different places along the road the party formed a ring and danced a few turns. There were certain fiddlers in each district who played at weddins and a collection was made up for them during the night. Then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Rogers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonmacart, Co. Longford
- Informant
- John Morgan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cloonmacart, Co. Longford
