School: Stravicnabo
- Location:
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael Kelly
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- (continued from previous page)lick it.What sleeps with its finger in its eye. Answer. The crook.What goes round the house, and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night. Answer. The brush. What has an eye and cant see. Answer A needle.Black and white and red all over. Answer A newspaper.
- The usual time the people get married is before Lent on Shrove Monday or Tuesday. The foods they have at Shrove is bacon and pan cakes. Long ago there would be runaway marriages, the man and the girl would run away to some friends house, and it would be a month after until they got married. Before the weddings there were matches made and the girl got £200 or cattle or goods from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Maggie Smith
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan