School: Ballykelly
- Location:
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Uadain
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 259](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0873%2FCBES_0873_259.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 259
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: Ballykelly
- XML Page 259
- XML “Local Marriage Customs”
- 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
- Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- The most frequent time for marriages is before lent and during the Summer months. When the bride and bridegroom are leaving home to go on their honeymoon an old shoe is tied to the back of the carriage. A wedding-feast is generally held at the bride's home. The neighbour's and friends are invited and they dance and sing all day and all night.
At night the straw-boys (fools) gather at the house and go in to sing and dance and often the guests of the wedding are afraid of them. They dress with skirts and they put masks on their faces so that they cannot be known.
When they go in they ask for the tea and when that is over they start(continues on next page)