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School: Cloncovid

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Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 114

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    shoe after them. When the bride came into her new home it as the custom to break the brides cake on her head. The cake was always an oaten one.
    "Straw boys" or "Ban Beggars" visit the grooms house the night of the wedding. Long ago those attending the wedding rode horses and when they came near the house they raced against other and whoever reached the house first got a bottle of whiskey.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Collector
    Rita Briody
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Brady
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    84
    Address
    Corbaun or Leitrim, Co. Longford