School: Tullyvin
- Location:
- Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Feeney
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- (continued from previous page)and if they get money they go to a public house and drink the worth of it.
Those attending weddings used to race against each other on horseback and the winner who reached the brides house first got a prize of a five-naggin bottle of whiskey.
When "straw-boys" were not welcome they used to run away with the traps and carts of the visitors and also pull the thatch off the house if it was a thatched one.- Collector
- Philomena B. Fox
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corgreagh, Co. Cavan