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School: Cnoc Beithe, An Fhiacail

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Knockbeha, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Maolruanaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 215

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  1. Local Marriage Customs (continued)

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    their faces and go into the house and dance a few sets. No one in the house would know them and no one would dance while they would be dancing. The reason why the "strawboys" used come is because there used be too many going from the one house and some of them used go as stawboys.
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  2. Local Marriage Customs

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Madge O' Mara
    Gender
    Female