School: Blacklion
- Location:
- Blacklion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Johnston
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- (continued from previous page)get in they dance with the bride, but if they stay outside, they light bonfires, discharge fire works, and sometimes fire shots. Long ago the people raced against each other on horse back when going from church to the bride's house. The husband used to take the wives to their new homes on horse back, they both sat on one horse.
- Collector
- Charles Lyness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh
- Informant
- Sergt Lyness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh