School: Ballykelly
- Location:
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Uadain
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- (continued from previous page)are wished a happy life. If they are rich a barrel of beer is there and the neighbours are given some to drink. Generally the dance is called "A Scrap Dance because they use up all the scraps left over after the weddings
- Shrove is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It is called Shrove Tuesday. People made it a great feast day of pancakes. A ring was put into each cake and whoever got it was said to get married in that year. Pegs were also put into them and whoever got a peg was said to be an old maid or bacholer.
All the young boys and girls in villiages went to one house and they danced and sang. Sometimes it was a wedding feast. Boys dressed themselves up in old(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mick Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bowling Green, Co. Wexford