School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 061
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- The following are some points of interest:
(1) The bride must not go in the same car as the bridegroom
(2) Instead of a wedding cake long ago, they used to have "boxty" bread and potatoes cakes.
(3) When bride and bridegroom came out of the church after the marriage rice was thrown on them.
(4) A crowd of boys dressed up in old clothes and called "straw boys" come and sing and dance around the bride and if she did not give them any money, it is said that she will be poor all her life.- Collector
- Joseph Geraghty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Flanagan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly